Elif the ReaderAs 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…
I fell in love with Irving Stone after reading The Agony and the Ecstasy. And with Lust for Life, in which he describes Van Gogh’s life, he became…
The things you’ll read about Wide Sargasso Sea will amaze you. So before even reading it, you’ll sense how powerful it is. And meeting with Jean Rhys with…
Gut, The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ is one of the books for anyone interested in their gut health. If you do not know much…
Ian McEwan is an author I love dearly, and I manage to discover something foreign to me in each of his books. I read On Chesil Beach on…
Fledgling is the first book I’ve read by Octavia Butler. Although I have heard of her name a lot until now, I wasn’t interested in the genre she…
Doris Lessing was a Nobel Prize winner who was born in Iran in 1919 and died in England in 2013. The Golden Notebook is known as the essential…
Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand is the first book I read from Nicaraguan author Gioconda Belli, and it was a good read! This is a novel…
I watched Fanfan the film way before reading the book. I didn’t even know there was a book back then. So when I saw the book, I immediately…
The Story of the Lost Child is Elena Ferrante’s last book of the Neapolitan Novels. I loved the author when I started reading this series. In the second…
Among Women Only is the first book I’ve read from Cesare Pavese but it definitely won’t be the last. This little book impressed me in so many ways.…