I first read George Orwell’s “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius” many years ago when I was in the process of learning English which turns out to be an everlasting endeavor. Some time last year, I picked this book up again, after listening to some BBC radio program that quoted … Continue reading The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Month: June 2017
How to live on 24 hours a day
In 1910, Arnold Bennett wrote a small volume of non-fiction titled How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. It is probably his best-known work among dozens of books that he wrote. I listed this as my book of this week. I would be cheating if I do not inform you upfront that I … Continue reading How to live on 24 hours a day
Night
My book of this week is Night, written by Elie Wiesel and translated by his wife Marion Wiesel. Elie wrote about his experience of being deported from his home town Sighet in northern Transylvania to concentration camps towards the end of the WWII in 1944, at age fifteen. Elie’s mother and sisters were separated from … Continue reading Night
Reading Like A Writer
Prose introduces her book as “the book that follows represents an effort to recall my own education as a novelist and to help the passionate reader and would-be writer understand how a writer reads.” Reading Like A Writer talks about close reading, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraphing, plots, creating characters and so on, … Continue reading Reading Like A Writer
Weddings and Funerals
I do not like weddings. Weddings make me cry. The moment the bride and bride’s father walk into the ceremony room in the town hall or church, the music in the background, the view of the two people. One is excited with some fear of the future. Uncertain how life will pan out but overjoyed … Continue reading Weddings and Funerals