Elif the ReaderAustrian author Christiane Ritter wrote A Woman in the Polar Night in 1934, on her return to Austria from Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean. She spent a year…
I 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,…
500 Essential Cult Books provide an excellent source for those looking for something to read. These books have influenced the masses to a great extent and have been…
All My Cats is the second Bohumil Hrabal book I read after Closely Watched Trains. I’ll just say this: I have not read a book disturbed me that…
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life was the first book I read from Daniel Klein. I thought it would be…
Mom and Me and Mom is the first book I ever read from Maya Angelou, and I don’t think it there is a better book to start reading…
My first Alain de Botton book was a present by my high school philosophy teacher. Contrary to all my prejudices, The Consolations of Philosophy was a book that…
Women & Power is the second book I read b Mary Beard after Civilisations, and it won’t be the last one. The book, which contains two different speeches…
The Cypress Tree is the first book I’ve read from Kamin Mohammadi. The author, who took me from London to Iran in a couple of pages, shared with…
Sarah Harvey, who works in the publishing industry, quits her job and moves to Japan. During the six months she spent there, she had the opportunity to study…