Book Review "Homegoing"
Sometimes when you read a book, you can feel it. That’s the effect HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi had on me. It is her debut novel, published...
Fish, Feng-Shui & Good Health
SO YOU WANT TO KEEP A PET. Your kids are pestering you. But you don’t have much time to spare, and you don’t want too much trouble...
Catch-22
When you read a book that is a classic, and much of it you dislike, you ought to know there is something special about it, some catch you...
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A book that sets you thinking about Afghanistan and its people. The turmoil the Afghans have gone through in recent times and the ravages...
Frankenstein - a cosy horror story
A great classic written in the eighteenth century by Mary Shelly, Frankenstein, is a masterpiece in the genre of horror. But, what might...
The Handmaid's Tale (Don't let the bastards grind you down)
Dystopian theme, unnerving as well. Like George Orwell’s ‘1984’. American society has come under an autocratic or totalitarian rule....