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22/10/2024
Jghaf
Of Mice And Men, John Stienbeck
A whirlwind of emotion. A tragedy. Challenging every fibre of your moral compass. A must read.
30/11/2022
Cleopatra
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Things indeed do 'fall apart', like when i finished this book. It's full to the brim with the richness of Nigerian culture, proverbs, and FOOD (ngl I was little hungry at times). As a Nigerian myself, there were too many times when I caught myself grinning at the pages and how relatable they were. But beneath all of that, it portrays those before us who were colonized as humans with established lives, rather than the 'savages' which are portrayed in the books written by the victors.
14/02/2022
Strawberries&Cream🍓🍦
This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay
Some hilarious recounts of the unfortunately very bleak situation within the NHS. Read it in one sitting and it had me choking with laughter and almost moved to tears at the lives of junior doctors. The work they do is honestly superhuman.❤️
28/11/2006
Bebadoode
Each peach pear plum, Idk
Phenomenal poetry
12/08/2024
Wool7.5 🧶
Shaken, Joss Stirling
Very exhilarating crime with a cute touch of romance. The humor never failed to have me walking into walls😂
08/06/2005
Ash
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
There’s no denying that reading The Lord of the Rings is a big commitment. It is more than a thousand pages long, and not all those pages are easy to read. Tolkien is very fond of lore and language and history and legend, and as a result The Lord of the Rings is full of them all. Many characters and places have a dozen names each. Various characters—Aragorn and Bilbo are the worst offenders—sing very lengthy songs about the champions of old and this and that. It is very, very hard to keep track of, and honestly since this was a reread I skimmed many of these songs and histories because they don’t particularly interest me and only peripherally inform the main story. I get that these were Tolkien’s primary interest, but I personally find it a bit disappointing because the actual story is so good.
15/10/2024
wordnerd90
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
A philosophical masterpiece exploring faith, morality, and free will.
20/10/2024
mazzymaz
An Inspector Calls, J. B. Priestley
An Inspector Calls is a compelling social drama set in 1912, written by J.B. Priestley in 1945. The story revolves around the wealthy Birling family, whose celebratory evening is disrupted by the arrival of Inspector Goole. His investigation into the suicide of a young woman, Eva Smith, exposes the family's moral failings and their complicity in her tragic fate. The play masterfully critiques class inequality and the lack of social responsibility, with Priestley using dramatic irony and a suspenseful structure to deliver his message. The characters serve as representations of different social attitudes, and the mysterious inspector acts as a voice of moral reckoning. Though set in the early 20th century, its themes of empathy, responsibility, and social justice remain relevant today. To conclude : Sheila is a brat, Eric is a deceitful rat, and Mr and Mrs Birling are equally horrible TOXIC people.
10/10/2024
Litty
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
It's the bomb! Trust me 🖐️
18/10/2024
hanifah
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Splendid!
20/10/2024
bookishbabe
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Excellent!