Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi wins 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Last Wednesday, British writer Susanna Clarke, 61, managed to take home the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction for her witty fantasy book Piranesi.
Review: “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar” by Cheryl Strayed
I found this book quite a unique book out of everything I read this year, primarily because of its format. Tiny Beautiful Things is a collection of letters sent to Sugar (Cheryl Strayed) on Dear Sugar columns published on The Rumpus.net.
Review: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” A Short Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
What is Omelas? Where is Omelas? It is not a real place that exists. According to the author Ursula K. Le Guin, Omelas is a Utopian society or a fairytale town where “the happiness is based on discrimination of what is necessary.”
3 Books By Authors Who Died By Suicide
Many great authors took their own lives because of depression or of an illness. These are the top 3 books I read this year, written by an author who committed suicide.
Review: “I, Pencil” Essay by Leonard E. Read
“I, Pencil: My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read” is an exciting parable I have come across this year. This essay was written by Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), in 1998, from a pencil’s point of view
Review: “The Bell Jar” novel by Sylvia Plath — “To The Person In The Bell Jar”
In the novel, the bell jar represents the imprisonment of emotions, despair, and mental illnesses. Sylvia Plath committed suicide in her apartment less than a month after the publication of Bell Jar, her only novel.
Top 10 Most Anticipated New Book Releases of September 2021
September is already around the corner, and there are a lot of wonderful books coming out! I figured these are the top 10 that would be the most anticipated for September. Check it out and let me know if I’ve missed a book you’re anticipating.
7 Amazing Books by Women in Translation – #WITMonth 2021
August is Women in Translation Month, a month celebrating female authors worldwide whose works have been translated from various languages into English.
Woman authors book upon becoming literate at the age of 70
Aya Başoğlu, a 71-year-old mother of nine, has written a book detailing all of her life events over the course of a year.
Paul McCartney’s latest book will include never-before-seen Beatles lyrics
The biography, which was announced earlier this year, is scheduled to be released on November 2.