Elif the ReaderI first saw Tolkien: The Maker of Middle-earth at the Bodleian Library in Oxford; I was officially fascinated. The price and the weight had scared me a little,…
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman was the funniest novel I’ve read in a long time. I needed a book like that after The Hitchhiker’s Guide…
The Bluest Eye is Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s first novel; she wrote this in 1970. In the years following the Great Depression, the book takes place in Lorain,…
The People of Paper, a novel written in a technique different from the ones you know, is a novel that drives people to a completely different land. Aside…
Mariko / Mariquita is the fourth book on the Keshiki series, and it is definitely an uplifting book. Of course, only if you like the sea, the sun,…
I read The Paris Wife at my family’s summer house. For some reason, most of the books I read that summer affected me in ways I couldn’t imagine.…
The Key affected me so much that I remembered why I took a break from Japanese literature. It weirdly influences me; sometimes, I pretend to be another person…
The Man Who Risked It All is a big name for a book, in my opinion anyway. That is why it took my attention in the book store…
Spring Sleepers is the third book in the Keshiki series. I’m not sure if I like it or not, but this was definitely a weird story. I tried…
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God is the first book of stories I’ve read in a long time. I’m not a person who reads a lot…