Reading Challenge Week 4 – Pan Asia

Whether it is Britain or Japan, every coloniser is the same in their colonising ways. They try to break people’s spirits, take away their sense of home, dehumanise them. This is what happened to Sunja, the young daughter of a crippled fisherman in a remote island of Korea and the heroine of my book ofContinue

Reading Challenge Week 3 – A Non-Human Protagonist

The Romantic poets of the late 18 and 19 century found the wondrous beauty of nature to be among their primary preoccupations. Given that this epoch is my favourite in literature, it came as no surprise to me that I have a romanticised all things green and blue. And so, I was hooked by theContinue

Reading Challenge Week 1 – A Book with an Unconventional Friendship

When any other activity encroaches upon the time allotted for leisure reading, I am a spiffing yet uncanny image of a child who dropped the lollipop of her favourite flavour merely seconds after purchasing it. And this was me for most of 2019, primarily as a result of desiring to be a super researcher andContinue

Read With Me -The Great Alone Part 3

Welcome to part 3 of the read-along of The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. If you haven’t yet read Part 1 or Part 2, I urge you to do so before continuing to read this post. So, for the seasons with bad weather, (autumn and winter), Leni’s dad was working on the pipeline away fromContinue

Read With Me – The Great Alone Part 2

Hello. This is a 3 (or 4) -part series of blog posts of the novel The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. If you haven’t read part 1 already, click here to do so. Remember how I said that I don’t hate Ernt (or Dad, as Leni calls him) but only feel sorry for him? OhContinue