George Orwell’s 1984 is one of those books everyone recommends, and is towards the top of any “read before you die” lists… Many would tell me how this is their favourite book with a mad glint in their eyes…
Category Archive: Fiction
As part of our efforts to include literature from all corners of the world, it would be silly to skip Russia. Especially when discussing post-apocalyptic dystopias. Tatyana Tolstaya’s Slynx was also an interesting and wild personal experience. So, strap yourselves and let me tell you how I tried reading the same book twice. In the same month.
– Nel
Vel’s Perspective Nalo Hopkinson’s Falling in Love with Hominids is this year’s compilation of short stories. Our overarching […]
Vel’s Perspective: Nelly had long spoken of how excited she is to be getting this book, and then […]
Vel’s Perspective: As part of the extensive Christmas hamper Nelly sent me last year, I got two of […]
Vel’s Perspective For a third year in a row, we have trusted ourselves to read and review a […]
Nel’s Perspective Rarely do I feel the need to write down everything going through my mind whilst reading […]
Vel’s Perspective Transki Stories is used as the umbrella name for two separate sets of stories – Transki […]
Nel’s Perspective Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker’s Dracul has been on my waiting-to-be-read list for a loooong […]
Vel’s Perspective The Monk of Hilendar is written by Dimitar Talev, a very prominent contemporary Bulgarian author. He […]
