Review of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick Reviewed by Fiza Pathan Spinster by Kate Bolick is one of the most enriching and well written nonfiction book that I have had the pleasure to read this year. I found this book in my local library’s bookshelf and I just had to borrow it. It’s a heavy read with a lot of in-depth analysis of situations, personality … [Read more...] about Review of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick
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Review of In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Review of In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri Reviewed by Fiza Pathan It would not be an exaggeration if I say that In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri was one of the most different books I’ve read in my life. It is Jhumpa Lahiri’s first nonfiction piece actually penned in Italian and then translated into English surprisingly not by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, but by … [Read more...] about Review of In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Review of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
When I was twenty years old and still in college my friend Tanya and I would often conduct discourses and events centered on the current trends in English Literature for the English department of our college. It was on one such cold November afternoon that our English department professor gave us the VCD of the movie ‘The Namesake,’ directed by Mira Nair, to be shown in our … [Read more...] about Review of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
BROWSE: The World in Bookshops edited by Henry Hitchings
BROWSE: The World in Bookshops edited by Henry Hitchings Reviewed by Fiza Pathan When I saw this book in one of my most favourite bookshops, without even checking out the synopsis or the editor or publisher of the book, I plucked it off its stand and went bought it. I’m a bookaholic; some people even call me a book reading dragon. I can’t live without books. I need to read them … [Read more...] about BROWSE: The World in Bookshops edited by Henry Hitchings
Review of The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri
Review of The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri Reviewed by Fiza Pathan This nonfiction piece was the very first book that I read, penned by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. I discovered the book in one of my favourite bookshops, tucked away between other good classic works, and I bought it immediately. The Clothing of Books may be only seventy-one pages long, but … [Read more...] about Review of The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri