Elif the Reader
As we are all trying to cope with the coronavirus social distancing, I thought it would be nice to share the 10 uplifting books I like. These books…
Slow Man is the second book I read by J. M. Coetzee. The first book I read was Scenes from Provincial Life, an autobiographical novel in which he…
Malcolm Lowry was a writer I wanted to read for a long time, and I was curious about him. The most popular book of this charismatic author, who…
The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I am was a book that I did not want to read even though I bought it years ago and placed it…
Middlesex is Jeffrey Eugenides’ most famous book that has been translated into many languages and sold millions. I had read and loved Eugenides’ book The Marriage Plot before,…
The Rings of Saturn describes W. G. Sebald’s walking tours in 1992 in Suffolk, one of Britain’s least populated and most stunning landmarks. But this is an ordinary…
Will In The World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare is the best Shakespeare biography ever written for most. Apart from that, since I haven’t read a Shakespeare biography, I…
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog is the seventh book in the Amelia Peabody series. In this mystery, Peabody and Emerson leave Ramses and Nefret behind and…
I read the Animal Farm years ago when I was too young to grasp what it means. I had been planning to reread it for the past two…
The Thursday Murder Club is not a book I would consider reading, but I have a book club, and they chose to read this one. I wish they…
Soil Not Oil is for the ones who think about the planet Earth, and it’s future. In this book, Vandana Shiva explains everything in excellent style. As I…