“I was nine years old when my mother threw me out of a moving car.” Trevor Noah‘s bestselling memoir Born a Crime starts with a bang. But if you think that this is the most extreme thing Trevor experienced during his tumultuous childhood in South Africa, I’m afraid he’ll prove you wrong. Most people will … Continue reading A Memoir of Love and Resilience: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Writing a sequel to a successful book is always a big risk to take. Even more so if that book is a smash bestseller called The Hate U Give. Angie Thomas took the plunge nevertheless—and delivered another masterpiece. In THUG, all eyes are on Starr Carter, a 16-year-old girl who finds her voice after witnessing her friend … Continue reading Back to Garden Heights: Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Happy second anniversary to Pages and Papers! I can’t believe it’s already been two years since I started this little blog. To celebrate this special day, I thought I’d share some of my favourite posts of this past year again. Book Reviews Seeing Humanity Through a Robot’s Eyes: Klara and the Sun: Klara and the … Continue reading Celebrating Two Years of Blogging
“ 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”--Mark Twain Everybody knows them, but no one has read them: the classics. The sort of books you should've read at least 'once in a lifetime,' but in truth never do. But why not? I guess the reason is that most people associate the classics with … Continue reading Why You Should Read Classic Literature
Klara and the Sun has been among the most anticipated releases of this year. For those of you who know the novel's author, this hardly comes as a surprise. Winner of the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro is among the most gifted authors of this century. Set in the near-distant … Continue reading Seeing Humanity Through a Robot’s Eyes: Klara and the Sun
Happy birthday Shakespeare! If you were, like me, fortunate enough to study his plays with a good uni professor, you probably understand why he's such a revered writer still today. If you read his plays for the first and last time in high school with a teacher who was more than happy to move on … Continue reading How to Read Shakespeare
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