The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. Kazuo Ishiguro in The Remains of the Day There is a certain experience that comes with reading this book. Intensely moving and perceptive, The Remains of the…
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow gains its name from Macbeth’s famous soliloquy. As bleak as it is, Gabrielle Zevin creates a new spin on the meaning of “tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”: in the world of games, it’s the possibility of “infinite rebirth, infinite redemption.” We don’t always understand life and how…
“In the winter of 1561, Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner, it occurs to her that their journey to this lonely place has a sinister purpose: he intends to kill her.” Maggie…
William Stoner lives a quiet life. After his death, he’s hardly remembered; during his life, he moves from his family’s farm to the University of Missouri, where he becomes a teacher. He falls in love with literature and teaching, but never rises above the rank of an assistant professor; he…
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” The Secret History by Donna Tartt I’ve never experienced anything like this book in my entire life. Reading this book was so surreal, so hypnotic; it felt like a fever dream. I was caught in its enthralling web, so…
To say that this book broke my heart is an understatement. It did that, and more. It crushed it into oblivion, absolutely ground up its pieces. All because of the masterfully encrypted idea of helplessness, the idea that even if what is happening to us is so obviously unjust, we…