Top Ten (+4) Tuesdays: New Authors 2021

This week in Top Ten Tuesdays hosted @That Artsy Reader Girl, we have been asked to name top ten (or more or less) new authors whom we discovered last year. Well, last year I read a host of new authors from those whom I made a special point to read like Reginald Hill and Shelley …

Review: The Boy That Never Was

The Boy That Never Was by Karen PerryMy rating: 2 of 5 stars Another book that promises more than it delivers. Harry and Robin are coping with the grief of losing their three old son. Though it was a natural calamity that took him away yet both are full of guilt and resentment which is …

Some New moon: The Green Helmet, and Other Poems by W.B. Yeats

O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is int, For he would be thinking of loveTill the stars had run awayAnd the shadows eaten the moon.W.B. Yeats' The Green Helmet and Other Poems, first published in book form in the year 1910, is a strange little text. Comprising of …

His Father’s Thoughts: John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Little Bruno's world changes when he shifts from Berlin to a place called Out-With as his Father has been posted over there. But what exactly his Father does,Bruno has little idea. All he knows is that his father was a man to watch and that the Fury had big things in mind for him and …

Nightmare or Real? Emma Donoghue’s Room

"Just because you've never met them doesn't mean they're not real. There's more things on earth than you ever dreamed about."Though I had heard a lot about Emma Donoghue's Room, I was wary of picking it up since I thought that the writer was simply cashing in on certain screaming headlines that hit the world's …