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…
The Swerve is one of the books I loved most among the books I read this year. Both the subject and the way Stephen Greenblatt handled it was…
The first book I read from Kurt Vonnegut is Cat’s Cradle. I bought his book Slaughterhouse-Five years ago, and I don’t know why but still I didn’t read…
Scenes from Provincial Life is J.M. Coetzee’s first book I read. I chose to read this book first because it was on the 1001 Books You Must Read…
The Art of Travel has become one of my favourite nonfiction books from the very first pages. I love Alain de Botton more and more after reading his…
I think Zorba the Greek is a book that everyone can read with enthusiasm, without exception. The unique atmosphere of the Aegean, the colourful characters, and the events…
A Passage to India is the first book I’ve read from E. M. Forster, and it will not be the last. The book, which was written in 1924,…
“There has never been such a perfect, beautiful, and nuanced prose in Russia,” said Gogol. He was talking about Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time. Do you…
I guess it is hard to find a person who is interested in Japanese culture and does not hear about ikigai. Spanish author and guide Hector GarciaPuigcerver, who…
In his most read book, Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman gives readers plenty of material to consider. It is 1905, and Einstein works at a patent office in Switzerland.…
The story of Paul Harding and Tinkers is actually quite familiar, but it is still one of the stories that do not lose their charm. The author, who…