“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.“ While I’m not one to be against reviewing autobiographical works, there is always an underlying feeling of uneasiness. Imagine this feeling when No Longer Human…
“If there is a hell, we’re in it. And if there’s a heaven, we’re already there. This is it.” Mieko Kawakami Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and gaining rise on media platforms, Heaven by Mieko Kawakami has been on my radar for a while. I’m a sucker for…
To be perfectly honest, I’ve been holding off on reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower for a while. The reason was that I found the first few pages virtually unreadable. The prose was too stiff, too rigid to navigate the passage smoothly. I get that the author was trying…