BOOK REVIEW || THE HANDMAID’S TALE BY MARGARET ATWOOD

  "My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born." Offred is a "Handmaid" in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or …

[Book Review] Temptation, Ambition & Witches: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

    “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”         This is my first time writing a review for Shakespeare's works. My experience with the writer is very limited as I've never studied any of his plays or sonnets, unless you count that one time in …

[Book Review] Far From The Gothic Romance: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.” Rebecca is far from the book it was marketed out …

2017 Year in Book Review Tag: a his and her segment

2017 was definitely an...interesting year. Personally, mine wasn't all that terrible. From working on my thesis, to starting a blog, to being able to spend Christmas with my boyfriend for the first time - 2017 is ending on a good note. I was tagged by Emma to do the 2017 Year in Book Review which …

THE METAMORPHOSIS: Dreary & A Little Funny

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” This sentence introduces us into one of Franz Kafka's famous works, The Metamorphosis. I have had no prior experience with Kafka and had only come to know of him through Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the …