Literature
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The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla: Book Review
I’m not the biggest reader of non-fiction. I take forever to get through them and it’s hard for me to find a particular topic or person that I genuinely find interesting – i’m more of an essay or article reader when it comes to that. But seeing as I made it a goal of mine…
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Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood: Book Review
SPOILER FREE! Oryx & Crake is easily one of the most imaginative and fascinating books I’ve read; however, despite its brilliance, I didn’t enjoy it – and honestly, I don’t think you’re supposed to. The only prioir knowlege i had about this book was that it was written by the same author who’d written The…
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Stephen King’s, The Shining: Book Review
SPOILER – FREE! “Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in.” … You’re going to need a cup of tea for this one! SYNOPSIS: Danny is only five years old but in the words of old Hallorann he is a ‘Shiner’, aglow with psychic…
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Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol 🗝 : Book Review
Spoiler free! Prior to The Lost Symbol, the only book I’d read by Dan Brown was The Da Vinci Code. I was aware of the controversy surrounding the plot and I even had people suggest that I not read it – I went to a Catholic school so I could understand why those trying to…
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Review: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – ‘All is not as it seems’
Fun-Fact: Did you know the word Scientist didn’t exist when Frankenstein was first published in 1818. Before the word was coined in 1833 by William Whewell, Scientists would have been referred to as Natural Philosophers, who were studiers of nature and the physical universe. Gothic literature isn’t my go-to genre but it caught my attention…
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