I’m glad to announce that my long-awaited poetry collection Beneath the Surface is finally out and ready for pre-orders on Amazon! Having said that, let’s talk a bit about the collection itself. from ‘Stopping Time’ […]
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Book Review
‘Hope, he said. ‘Damn thing never leaves you alone.’ Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun It takes patience to read Ishiguro. Slowly, and carefully, as if trying to pull off a bandaid, he tells the […]
Book Review: Dalia by Sara Badawieh
‘This filthy neighbourhood we live in is like a prison cell where men act as its iron bars, preventing women from escaping. Come to think of it, the women here seem fine; it’s only me […]
The Discomfort of Evening – Book Review
‘Nobody knows my heart. It’s hidden deep side my coat, my skin, my ribs. My heart was important for nine months inside my mother’s belly, but once I left the belly, everyone stopped caring whether […]
Five Autumn Reads Perfect for Halloween Week
It is the perfect time of the year to curl up with a mug of hot cocoa and a good book. These five books are wonderful pre-Halloween reads that will definitely put you in the […]
Book Review: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel Mexican Gothic is deeply rooted in the ancient Mexican mythology, interspersed with references to gothic classics such as the Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Rebecca, as well as the original, Grimm and […]
What is Culturally Responsive Research-Based Reading Instruction?
The debate about how to teach reading has been going on for more than a century. Reading instruction methodology has undergone a myriad of changes from 19th-century letter recognition drills, to phonics-centred instruction that came […]
Some Demon of the Deep: Hiraeth by Sabina Lungeanu – Book Review
‘Some demon of the deep is stirring in its sleep, bellowing its grief through the thick layers of water that press it down and chain it to the bottom of the sea.’ ~ Sabina Lungeanu, […]
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Book Review: And This Gives Life to Thee
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as […]
On Writing Poems and Darning Socks: Robert Southey’s Advice to Charlotte Brontë
‘…she rather needs keeping down than bringing forward; and then I think, monsieur—it appears to me that ambition, LITERARY ambition especially, is not a feeling to be cherished in the mind of a woman: would […]
Little Fires Everywhere Book Review: Where’s the Fire?
“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a […]
