Category: Poetry and Short Stories
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Fredrik Backman’s And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a Good Pain
Though small, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a mighty read. It is gentle and caring, yet packs a tremendous punch, and you can feel every drop of humility, love, and patience in this incredibly heartfelt read. This book rec only came across my radar maybe a week or two…
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Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment is Visceral and Has Teeth
With the summer sun making its appearance, the heat of the day drawing out the fatigue from my bones, and the long invigilating hours making themselves known, I have found myself drifting to shorter reads to keep my brain stimulated. I don’t usually read literary fiction or women’s fiction, but The Days of Abandonment has…
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Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is Sharp, Succinct, and Stunning
The more I read recommendations from people I trust, the more I fall in love with the power of literature, especially that from nations with such rich histories. Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is only one such example, but it is a truly astonishing one at that. Both heartfelt and harrowing, this tale brings…
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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is an LGBT Classic
This classic is powerful, mesmerising, and heartbreaking in so many ways. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is one of those short novels that fills the whole space, with life in every word and emotion seeping off the page. It is lyrical and intense and complex and impossible to ignore. It is rough, focusing on many…
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The Classic and Unforgettable Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
I have heard Franz Kafka’s praises be sung from dawn to dusk throughout my years on Tumblr and Pinterest, not to mention my English Literature degree pointing out his impact and influence across a great many decades. I hadn’t picked up any of his works though, and so here is where Metamorphosis enters the fray.…
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My Thoughts on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights
Out of all the Dostoyevsky short stories, I wasn’t expecting the first one I read to be White Nights. I have requested Notes from a Dead House from the library, and in turn White Nights feels like the opposite-most piece of literature of his to read. Nevertheless, I read it and have many thoughts to…
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Classic Poetry in Rumi’s Selected Poems
Now, I tested myself with this one as I don’t usually gravitate toward poetry anyway, let along classic poetry, but I have seen so many excerpts of Rumi’s poetry and teachings throughout the years, I knew I had to give the collection a try. As I anticipated, I was a little disconnected from the work,…
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Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector’s Short, Sombre Brazilian Classic
There’s a line on page 8 that summarises Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star perfectly – ‘what I am about to write can’t be absorbed by minds that are very demanding and covet refinement.’ That could also sum up her writing in general, but I found it profound in the first few pages of this…
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The Succinct, Tragic Tale of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
As far as classics go, I am well behind in the literature. It honestly is a genre I struggle with, as has been established in various posts like The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four, and not-so-obviously my Frankenstein where I talked about Mary Shelley…
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I Love Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven and Annabel Lee
I am not a poetry person per se, but I can appreciate them when they come across my path. Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven and Annabel Lee have been elusive, but I have finally laid eyes upon the masterpieces and found them compelling, enchanting, and so profoundly lyrical they sing from the pages on which…
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