Category: Book of the Week
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Book of the Week #17
Self-help books aren’t always my cup of tea, but that does not mean they’re worthless or unhelpful. It really depends on the content inside a self-help book, and what its overall objective and guidance pertains to. Kŭn-hu Yi’s If You Live to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy stands out because it appears to…
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Book of the Week #16
Debut works can say a lot about an author, and I think naming her first public work Nightbitch says a lot about Rachel Yoder as a modern, subversive, and perhaps even chaotic, author. This novel centres in on a struggling woman. Unable to make it as an artist, and positioned as a mother of a…
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Book of the Week #15
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an immensely talented author who has received plenty of praise here on The Steady Read. She has a knack for slow and compelling narratives, and I assume Americanah will be full of the same slow-paced quality that appears in all her other works. The story follows Ifemelu and Obinze, two teenage…
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Book of the Week #14
Stephen King is an author who has basically passed me by for all my life. Every interaction with his works has come in the form of film adaptations for The Shining and IT—meaning I have next to no understanding about his writing style, the quality of his works, and all that. All I know is…
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Book of the Week #13
Anita Shreve is an author who has featured here on The Steady Read, albeit quite a while back. She was an author who I took a spontaneous plunge on when seeing many of her works in a second-hand bookshop for as little as fifty pence. Although I have only read one of her novels, and…
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Book of the Week #12
Sayaka Murata is an author I have previously enjoyed, primarily due to her quirky way of writing, as well as imbuing some black humour into the story. For that reason, I have kept Life Ceremony in mind since I want to enjoy more of the author’s simple, but amusing, way of writing. Unlike the last…
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Book of the Week #11
Modern novels can be tricky. They just don’t seem to hold as well as the classics. In fact, most modern novels that perform well are often partially, or sometimes wholly, set in a pre-2000s world. Contrastingly, and perhaps daringly, Jem Calder’s short story collection Reward System places itself right in the real-world 2020s. Through the…
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Book of the Week #10
Having read Mr Salary and enjoyed it for an hour or so, I really have taken a greater interest in the various Faber Stories titles. On that note, and particularly because it has a cool-looking cover, Milan Kundera’s Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead caught my eye. In essence, this book…
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Book of the Week #9
If you’re in any way interested in reading, then I’m certain you’ve either seen an advertisement, or perhaps have even already read, Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel A Little Life. This lengthy novel is ultimately a story about friendship, companionship, brotherly love, and four male classmate’s journeys through life in America. Based on that, you would…
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Book of the Week #8
Having recently watched the film (after promising myself that I would first read the book), Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club has moved greatly up my TBR list. In essence, Fight Club is a somewhat satirical novel aiming to point out the feminisation of masculinity towards the latter decades of the twentieth century, particularly within Generation X….