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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
"Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel any pain anymore that you're in real trouble." Buy...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read


The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
William Faulkner understood The Catcher in the Rye as this, “His (Holden’s) tragedy was that when he attempted to enter the human race,...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read


The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?” To read Ernest Hemingway’s The Old...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read


Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
There are people whose past events exist on a linear trail. Each moment is a stamp upon a smooth and unruffled surface. This makes...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read


The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
There is no other writer so gifted to have diagnosed Time as Eternity’s disease and to have endured it as a means to verify Existence as...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read


How To Read and Why by Harold Bloom
To read this book is to celebrate more consciously the pleasure of reading. Harold Bloom gives all readers an assignment which is to read...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20213 min read


There Will Never Be Enough Books
#1: Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha (Book of the month) #2: Not Enough Books #3: TV Show Recommendation #4: Recommendations #1: Hermann...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jan 31, 20219 min read


The Year I Spent Reading Fewer Books
#2: The Year I Spend Reading Fewer Books #3: Film Recommendation #4: Recommendations #2: The Year I Spent Reading Fewer Books Written by...
Ayesha Dhurue
Dec 31, 20204 min read
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