Literary Fiction Archives

Cover of Ordinary People by Diana Evans and quote: 'How long will you go on living your life, as if you were balancing on a ribbon?'

Contemporary British Novel: Ordinary People by Diana Evans

May 30, 2019 Amalia 0

I read Ordinary People because it’s on the 2019 shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. This is a contemporary British novel set in South London detailing the lives of ordinary people. I expect extraordinary things especially since it made […]

Popular Contemporary Novels Worth the Hype

May 9, 2019 Amalia 0

I’m not that into reading contemporary novels, especially the over-hyped ones, but I am known to occasionally give into hype and the Internet was definitely on fire when in comes to these three books. So here they are, the three […]

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

March 23, 2019 Amalia 0

This novel is a myth retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of Briseis, one of the many women taken as slaves, prostitutes, nurses and concubines by the conquering Greeks. Since I read this book late 2018 it has been […]

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

February 22, 2019 Amalia 0

Purple Hibiscus is the last book from Adichie’s back list novels I had left to read, and as I expected, I was not disappointed. There is something about Adichie’s writing that keeps me hooked and opens a floodgate of emotions. […]

cover of three historical fiction books, washington black by esi edugyan, the mermaid and mrs hancock by imogen hermes gowar and the essex serpent by sarah perry

Three Historical Fiction Books with a Twist of Magic

January 1, 2019 Amalia 0

Here I will explore three novels Booktube made me read, all hyped historical fiction books with a twist of magic. Historical fiction is not my go-to genre these days, especially not the ones with magical elements in them but I […]

Listening to Classics: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

August 10, 2018 Amalia 0

This summer I rediscovered my love for classics not by reading them but by listening to them. I always want to read more classics and I always pick something else up as they are usually slower and chunkier reads. So, […]

cover of Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward and quote: '[...] I understood [...], that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.'

Contemporary Literary Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

August 3, 2018 Amalia 0

This contemporary literary fiction with elements of magical realism is portraying a poor black African-American family living in a fictional town in Mississippi. It is a tragic story of struggle and hope. It is now! After days and days of […]

book review, book cover of tin man by sarah winman and quote: And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.

Review: Tin Man by Sarah Winman

June 15, 2018 Amalia 0

I started this book knowing that it has been praised and recommended by many and since it is a short one I decided to give it a go and see if it’s worth the hype. After reading it I find […]

Review: Elmet by Fiona Mozley

April 15, 2018 Amalia 0

Fiona Mozley’s Elmet was nominated for the Man Booker in 2017 and this year it got longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. A book getting so much attention in the literary world is a must read for all book-lovers […]

Review: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

February 9, 2018 Amalia 0

The library copy of Exit West was finally available when I happened to swing by a couple of weeks ago, so I picked it up as I remembered that it was one of the shortlisted books for the Man Booker […]