Less Than Zero is the slice-of-life narration of four weeks of Clay’s life. Clay is back from his school on vacation to his hometown of Los Angeles. He is part of the artistic elite, the kids of movie directors and actors, kids who drive Porsches …
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The Goldfinch is truly a Dickensian novel, as many people have already observed. It is the odyssey of Theo, his coming of age story, and his meeting many oddball characters throughout his life. As in The Secret History, the plot is not the mainstay here, …
Read MoreBook Review – The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” is slow burn as slow burn can be. The characters develop extremely slowly, over pages of back story, descriptions of peculiarities, seeming trivial incidents that do not mean anything, but they add up to something meaningful in the end. I …
Read MoreMovies for writers and other creatives
Writerly life (Creative life in general) Capote : A movie that explores the time in life of Truman Capote when he wrote “In cold blood. Bonus is a glimpse in the success of Harper Lee, who was Capote’s childhood friend. The Angel at My Table …
Read MoreMy GF is a LitFic fanatic! My BF is a romance worm!
“Many happy returns of the day, dude. Look what I bought for you?” “Oh! “Manhattan Beach”! I was so looking forward to read this.” “I know, I know. When we were in Goa, you read “A visit from the Goon squad” even in the dim …
Read MoreAn Ode to Friendship
An Ode to Friendship Anyway, I always loved it when we played The Doors, I absolutely adored the voice of Jim Morrison.Guess what, I do not like Doors any more. I really don’t?What do you like then?I listen to a lot of different kind of …
Read MoreSignificant and Heartfelt
Though all forms of writing are unique, poetry stands out. Mainly because it is so commercially unsuccessful, and anyone who writes it has to be passionate about the craft and not money. I have written poems all my life, and I am happy to publish …
Read MoreAliens
There is world, vast and uncaringLonely and beautiful and fearsome,meaningless and undying, compassionateand tuneful, inharmonious and barren.You decide to reside on mars,just for the sake of noveltyAnd to take only the few humans,who love you and have unquenchingThirst for random snippets of mockeryand the trees …
Read MoreBook Review – The Deep Blue Good-By
This is the first of several novels that John Macdonald has written with Travis McGee as a protagonist. Travis, who likes to be called Trav, is a self confessed beach bum, someone who works on special cases only when he runs out of money earned …
Read MoreBook Review – Carrie
Carrie is an interesting first book. Technically, it was not Stephen King’s first book. It was his first published book. He took it up as a challenge from a female friend to write a book where the protagonist was a woman. In one of the …
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