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The thing about Raskolnikov is he’s not some cackling villain. He’s brilliant, proud, drowning in theories. Crime and Punishment doesn’t...

The Horse and His Boy. Now this one feels different from the rest of the Narnia series—it doesn’t begin with children from our world tum...

The book also explores the universality and particularity of grief simultaneously. From the very first lines of Notes on Grief, you are ...

Slaughterhouse-Five hits you like a punch to the chest that you didn’t see coming, and then keeps hitting in ways you can’t anticipate. ...

If Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun made you inhabit Nigeria’s domestic and political landscapes, Americanah plunges you into th...

George Saunders has this uncanny way of combining the absurd, the tragic, and the painfully human, and he does it so quietly that you al...

You pick up We Should All Be Feminists: A Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions—or, as I like to call it, the Feminist Manifesto—and immediat...

Have you ever read a book that feels like you’re sitting in a smoky old tavern, listening to a mischievous friend spin stories that make...

Kvothe’s story isn’t just a tale—it’s like listening to a man strip himself bare, showing the brilliance, the scars, and the mistakes th...

You know, talking about The Stormlight Archive almost feels like trying to describe a whole new world to someone who’s never seen it bef...

The sisterhood between Kambili and Jaja is also depicted with such closeness that it seems like your own family is on the camera.... Fro...

Ahhh The Wise Man’s Fear — that sequel is like slipping back into a conversation you never wanted to end. You know how The Name of the W...

Ahhh, see ehn, that’s the one book we’re all holding our breath for — Doors of Stone. It hasn’t dropped yet, but let me gist you the way...

Through the Looking-Glass. That book honestly feels like Lewis Carroll said, “Okay, so you survived Wonderland, huh? Let’s crank the wei...

Chimamanda Ngozi is a renowned writer in Nigeria. Her books are extraordinary. Dream Count was recently released last two months and I c...

Reading The Republic of Thieves felt like sitting at a table with old friends you adore but who can’t stop hurting each other. You know ...

Siddhartha: An Indian novel is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Sidd...

Ohhh, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe — the one that really feels like the heart of Narnia. Even though it wasn’t the first chrono...

Honestly this book always reminds me of Alice in Wonderland, a movie I watched years back. Reading this book was like taking a walk down...

From the moment it began, I was carried into this strange, beautiful world that was both familiar and completely alien at the same time....

One of the earliest moments that made me laugh and also feel for Bilbo was when the dwarves basically stormed into his house, eating his...

it was powerful, seductive, but also dangerous. At first, you think it’s just another medieval fantasy tale, but the way the story unfol...

The final battle against the White Witch still lives in my head rent-free. When I first saw this book, I remembered the movie I watched,...

Let me gist you small—because honestly, this past month has been like a crash course in the future of writing. So, for 30 days, I decide...

You know, everyone’s talking about how AI is changing the world—how it’s making our work faster, how it’s replacing jobs, how it’s writi...

There’s a quiet kind of power in small beginnings, one so often overlooked in a world obsessed with big wins, instant success, and overn...

To Escape, Poem by Eleanor Kristan https://writtentales.substack.com/p/to-escape #poetrylovers #LiteraturePosts #readerscommunity #writer...

Christmas 1966/2022, Poem By Riley Kilmore. This is a must read. Show the inner of war and memories of family. It's deep. https://written...

Winter, A Villanelle Poem by Jackie Chou https://writtentales.substack.com/p/winter #LiteraturePosts #poems #poetry #readingcommunity #re...

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