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Why Now Is The Best Time To Read Books
This pandemic has brought forth all kinds of changes to our everyday lives, but one thing that I found interesting is the drastic shift in habits. It makes sense that during a pandemic, we're going to have to do things a lot differently, but it was refreshing to see that people gravitate towards something that we don't often do outside of a pandemic.
By Eric Burdon6 years ago in Geeks
Novels to Discover "Dear Evan Hansen"
Hello and welcome to Novels to Discover! Last week I took you on an adventure in the form of Susanna Kaysen’s memoir, “Girl, Interrupted” which focused on her time in a hospital that specialised in mental illnesses. You can read that article here.
By Leigh Hooper6 years ago in Geeks
Harry Potter and The Spell of Influence
"Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home" Those words will always manage to cause chills to run down the spines of every Harry Potter fan. The words of JK Rowling at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 will forever be the sentence that can cause my eyes to instantly go glassy. Hogwarts had always felt like home to me, more than my actual home ever had been, hearing those words felt like comfort, reassurance, and acceptance.
By Avalon Morgenstern6 years ago in Geeks
Dracula, takes a bite out of readers
This is my review of the Dracula novel.. ok so Count Dracula has been welcoming readers into his castle in dark, cold, and bat filled Transylvanian abode for years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years now. So by no means is Count Dracula was not in anyway the first vampire in literature, but he is easily by far the most important of the Vampire ones because he is the basis for all of them. The count has flown out, spread the black silky wings like a bat out of Bram Stoker’s classic novel and into slowly deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep into our cultural imagination. The vampires of today’s fantasy fiction all owe something to this dark and evil count. But Yet, when contemporary readers turn back to the brilliant Bram Stoker’s original novel, and they might be surprised because, pardon the pun I make, it is easy for reviewers to take a hard sucking bite out of this imperfect horror.
By Dylan Sharma 6 years ago in Geeks
20 Books of 2020 (Pt. 20)
Now that we’ve reached part 20, I want to say another big thank you to all of you who have joined me on this journey through my reading during 2020. So far we have been through my 24th birthday reading, through the journey of my obsession with the British Library Crime Classics books and finally, through a global pandemic nicknamed “the plague”. Hopefully, we will recover from that latter one soon and so will your own countries. For part 20, I wanted to discuss something very close to my heart when it comes to books and that is what I appreciate in a good novel.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
50 Great Books of the 20th Century
There are so many great books written with great intentions and some written without any intention whatsoever that just happen to be great. I have compiled a list of 50 books that I think are some of the key texts of the 20th century. However, this is simply an opinion so you may or may not find your own favourites on here and neither is this all of them. I have my reasons for choosing and leaving certain books out. They are in no particular order...
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
20 Books of 2020 (Pt.19)
As you know I'm reading more than usual and so, I have to write these faster now. At the moment I'm actually pursuing other hobbies I have as well and that is the purpose of this section, I want to share my other hobbies with you. The first one I want to share is baking.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
