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FATHERS AND SONS BY IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENEV Set in Nineteenth Century Russia, Fathers and Sons by I. S. Turgenev takes us the estates and agricultural fields – among the rural gentry and their peasants. It portrays two different sons and fathers deal with the changes happening around them. The book starts when Arkady returns home from school with his friend Bazarov, who is a nihilist, to the home of his father, Nicholas. His uncle Pavel also lives there. Nicholas is trying to stay with the times and has set his serfs free, but his estate has fallen into disrepair. He also has been having a relationship with a former servant, Fenichka, and has fathered a child. My experience in Russian Literature is quite […]
BOOK OF THE WEEK: FATHERS AND SONS Posted October 12, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments FATHERS AND SONS BY IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENEV Set in Nineteenth Century Russia, Fathers and Sons by I. S. Turgenev takes us the estates and agricultural fields – among the rur
A CLASH OF KINGS: A REVIEW FOR THE KINGS Posted August 7, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments A CLASH OF KINGS by George R. R. Martin As I read George R. R. Martin more I fall in love with his essence of writing more. I finished A Clash of Kings in four day reading. A Song o
THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE: A REVIEW Posted June 16, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments The Devil’s Disciple was written in 1896-97 by G. Bernard Shaw. The play occurs in the town of Websterbridge, New Hampshire, in 1777 during the American Revolution. The play is written in a
REVIEW FOR THE JAZZ: THE GREAT GATSBY Posted June 3, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments Review by Aman Mittal THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fitzgerald I read the book over the last weekend and spent quite a time as it length would not suggest. Some would say its a tragic l
BOOK REVIEW: DEATH BY CHOCOLATE Posted April 27, 2013 by @amanhimself in Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments Death by Chocolate by Emma Walker How would you describe an angel? Do they have two white wings fastened to their bodies which glow in luminosity and a halo also luminous, over their head? Then the
APRIL BOOK OF MONTH-THE METAMORPHOSIS Posted April 26, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 5 Comments The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely
F IN EXAMS: A REVIEW FOR THE EXAMS Posted December 14, 2012 by @amanhimself in Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments F IN EXAMS by Richard Benson Richard has done a hilarious job by illustrating this book. We all have faced it. THE EXAMS! The big day for some, the doomsday for others. And we all have got gr
THE GIRL WHO KICKED HORNET’s NEST: A REVIEW FOR THE HACKER Posted September 3, 2012 by @amanhimself in Crime & Mystery, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments THE GIRL WHO KICKED HORNET’s NEST by STIEG LARSSON The third and the final book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU: A REVIEW FOR THE BALLS ON FIRE Posted August 31, 2012 by @amanhimself in Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments This is Where I leave You Author:Jonathan Tropper “This is where I leave you”, is a salve for every family. It was just a hitchhiker for me. A hilarious book, no doubt ab
Veronika Decides to Die: A Review for the MADNESS Posted July 5, 2012 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments Veronika Decides to Die Author: Paulo Coelho “If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones wh