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Some Books That Feel Like Films
“It was himself that he was attempting to define as he worked on his study. It was himself that he was slowing shaping, it was himself...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jan 31, 20244 min read


9 Books You Can Read In A Day: Literary Escapes for Time-Bound Readers
In the vast world of literature, the pursuit of profound meaning often intertwines with the unstoppable passing of time. While some...
Amreen Dhurue
Jan 1, 20243 min read


How To Read A Book - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
The book, I believe, is an indispensable guide to reading; why it resembles life and how it awakens us from the numbness of having to...
Ayesha Dhurue
May 9, 202319 min read


A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
For Schopenhauer, the deepest problem of the self, afflicting itself, is our individuality. The will to live must live and fester on...
Ayesha Dhurue
Nov 28, 20221 min read


The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
“When you looked through an angel’s eyes you saw essences instead of surfaces, you saw the decay of the soul blistering and bubbling on...
Ayesha Dhurue
Sep 15, 20222 min read


Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Don’t we all occupy stretches of time that are finite yet inerasable and profound? So do we, then, accept the many possibilities of...
Ayesha Dhurue
Aug 19, 20222 min read


The Box Man by Kobo Abe
It all started with wanting to become, or rather be, a box man. The book introduces a work of fiction that sets the boundary that...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jul 31, 20221 min read


Harold Bloom on the importance of reading children's literature
Harold Bloom recommends 41 stories and tales and 83 poems for children in his book, Stories And Poems For Extremely Intelligent Children...
Ayesha Dhurue
Aug 25, 20213 min read


The symbolic significance of John Milton's Paradise Lost
Whether it is Satan awakening in Hell among the Rebel angels or the sentimental rigor with which Satan provokes the temptation and fall...
Ayesha Dhurue
Aug 10, 20212 min read


The profoundly psychological world of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
A psychological study of an individual rather than a large group of people, so that it’s more private and intimate. That is what makes...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jul 9, 20212 min read
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