Exploring The Vegetarian: A Journey of Discomfort

Exploring The Vegetarian: A Journey of Discomfort words I found The Vegetarian by accident.I wasn’t looking for it, I knew nothing about it, and I had no expectations. It was resting on the chefs’ desk, in the kitchen office at work.A place where books tend to be all the same: large, heavy cookbooks that pile up over […]

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA words There are books you can remember, and then there are books that only exist while you are reading them. The Master and Margarita belongs to the second category. Not because you are distracted, but because this book refuses to be possessed afterward. It exists only while you are moving through it, and disappears the […]

SHANTARAM, BEFORE THE HALFWAY POINT

SHANTARAM, BEFORE THE HALFWAY POINT words This fucking book. A block of more than a thousand pages. I didn’t know it.I didn’t know anything about David Gregory Roberts.I had never read an Australian writer before.Two books don’t exactly make a career. A fugitive, yes; writer, we can debate that later. Shantaram is the story of a criminal […]