• Novels

    Heart of Darkness

    / 6 October, 2011

    This is one classic I was never assigned in my voyage through academia. Having recently read Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible, I decided now would be a good time to continue the focus on…

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    The Poisonwood Bible

    / 30 September, 2011

    There are currently 1,545 reviews of this novel already listed at Amazon. What can I possibly add? Nothing. Yet I’ve just had my own personal experience of the book nonetheless. I blog partly…

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    March

    / 5 August, 2011

    Last year, I was dazzled by Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague. “How do people write books like this?” I wondered. “How can someone research such a seemingly unpromising…

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    Goodnight Mister Tom

    / 2 May, 2011

    Goodnight Mister Tom is… heartbreaking. Inspiring. Eye-opening. It’s heartbreaking because it depicts two ways people can damage and destroy one another: child abuse and war. William Beech, a little boy evacuated from a…

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    The potato peel book

    / 25 April, 2011

    I know. Everyone was reading and talking about The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society last year, and the year before that too. I can’t say it was even on my TBR…

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    The White Witch

    / 18 July, 2010

    The White Witch is a historical novel about the English Civil War(s) of the 17th century. It is surely one of Elizabeth Goudge’s best works, capturing not only the political conflict of Puritan…

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