Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

This book has somewhere just over 300 pages so there is really no reason as to why it took me a near six months to read – I gotta say that … it’s a little embarrassing considering I’ve read longer books in less time. One of the first things that I noticed about this book

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Known to many readers as the follow-up novel to The Handmaids Tale, this text takes readers into the future of Gilead, following a different set of characters, and shedding light on elements which before were not revealed. As with some previous reads, I took notes as I read to note down some thoughts I had

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four was one of the requirements for me to read in one of my university modules; Modernist to Contemporary to Present Day Literature (a crazy title for a module, I know). After consulting a few people who had previously read this book, I was under the impression that it is essentially a classic and