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The Buried Giant
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Imagine yourself in a familiar world with characters like the ones in the fairytales you grew up reading. Borrowed characters like ogres, knights, and dragons are common characters embedded in your psyche. Ishiguro uses familiar and dominant literary landscapes as essential components of The Buried Giant where Ishiguro opts for the known vs the unknown. In The Buried Giant Beatrix and Axl, read like two elderly rabbits from a Beatrix Potter illustration, walk hand in hand, navigating the English countryside, often confused by the situation they are in search of the memories taken away by a mysterious mist. As they try to figure out who they are,…
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FairyTale, By Stephen King
Fairy Tale, By Stephen King The King of Horror wears two crowns. There are no complaints here about his writing. Fantasy fiction lovers will be treated to a Jack and the Beanstalk world full of curses, stadium battles, giant insects, two moons, gold, and one tricycle. The only downside is that you will have to wait until the second half of the novel for the fantasy. The first half is classic Stephen King character development, which is just as engaging as the fantasy parts. If you have not read Stephen King, this might not be the novel to start with. Here are some tips to consider: there are disfigured characters…
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Sea of Tranquility: Shared Experiences
By Mariam Nooristani Sea of Tranquility Novel by Emily St. John Mandel The narrative revolves around a haunting moment in time where the characters in the novel experience something unexplainable. Mandel’s storytelling is simply hypnotic as she seamlessly captures the gravity of global events in elegant prose. One event covered in the novel is the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic-related work may not be your cup of tea right now. Considering this, Mandel writes about the pandemic without causing a flutter of anxiety or panic. The narrative creates a gap of time that allows for time and space to have passed sufficiently enough to where the reader feels a safe mental…
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Mad Honey By Jodi Picoult: Either You’ll Love The Twist Or Hate It
By Mariam Nooristani Mad Honey 🔗 Mad Honey begins as a carefully crafted narrative, with an endearing mother and son relationship. It quickly pulls the reader into Picoult’s world of transforming relationships, and the challenges and strength needed to navigate them. Mad Honey is a contemporary themed narrative about a single mom and Beekeeper named Olivia McAfee. Olivia is a devoted mother, and as her son slowly pulls away into adulthood Oliva seeks refuge in her beekeeping. After a turbulent marriage and divorce Olivia returns home to the small town that she grew up in with her son Asher. As Oliva struggles with her past and the unknowns of the…