On the very first page, we are told that Pecola Breedlove, an 11 year old girl with only the desire of seeing the world through blue eyes, is impregnated by her own father, and that Pecola will live and her child will die. “There is really nothing more to say,” writes Morrison, “except why. But…
Category: summer read
More ‘Ghost Story’ than ‘Love Story’: A Review of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca was my first tryst with a thriller, and at the impressionable age of 16, it became fundamental. Not that I hadn’t read my share of the ‘mysteries’ – the Famous Fives, the Sherlock Holmes, even the Miss Marple books, but Rebecca was different. I mistook it for a love story, a classic ‘Cinderella’ tale,…
The Summer That Lasted a Lifetime: A Review of Call me by your Name by André Aciman
No book celebrates summer more lavishly than Call me by your Name, a masterpiece on first love. The slow pace of its narrative is synonymous with the lazy, languid days of the Italian countryside summertime it is set in, where every moment is spent reading, splashing around in the pool, playing the piano, discussing art…
The Witch Who Turned Men into Pigs: A Review of Circe by Madeline Miller
The readings of Greek Mythology, notably Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, sums up Circe as a ‘’witch who turned men into pigs.’’ She is also famous as Odysseus’s lover. She briefly appears in the Minotaur story, when the pregnant Pasiphae (Circe’s sister) calls upon the exiled Circe to help with the birth of the monster, fathered…
