Tag: Classics
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Review: The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories
Some people always want more from life than life will hand them. The Trouble with Happiness is about that ache, and the homes it wrecks.
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Review: The Castle
The Castle is an unfinished novel about a man trapped in an absurd bureaucracy. He fights for answers no one will ever give him.
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Review: The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet is a book with no plot, no ending, written for the restless souls who feel everything a little too deeply.
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Review: The Wall
Can a woman ever truly be free? The Wall is a haunting dystopian novel that will make you rethink every wall you have ever survived behind.
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Review: Água Viva
Água Viva is a short book in a flowing, stream-of-thought, and poetry style. It reflects on the life that moves through everything.
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Review: The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories is a collection of 85 short stories that explore inner lives, revealing why Lispector’s writing linger with readers.
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Review: Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector explores a woman’s inner life through memory, marriage, and self-questioning.
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Review: The Bell Jar
In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a bright young woman whose world slowly falls apart.
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Review: Frankenstein, The 1818 Text
I read Frankenstein right after watching del Toro’s adaptation and nothing was what I expected. The book was different yet equally beautiful.
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Review: Stoner
Stoner by John Williams follows a poor farm boy who falls in love with literature and faces a lifetime of quiet disappointments.
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Review: The Trial
The Trial by Franz Kafka is about one man’s mysterious arrest as well as a mirror to the systems that still rule our lives.
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Review: Fahrenheit 451
What makes Fahrenheit 451 a must-read classic for our times? The story of burning books reveals truths that still echo in today’s world.
