Annie Kapur
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Book Review: "Agatha Christie" by Lucy Worsley (Pt.2)
This review covers chapter 13 through to the end of chapter 23. *** After the birth of her daughter, Rosalind - Agatha Christie seemingly sinks deep into domestic life. She learns to make foods, and the author makes a wry comment about how cooking was now considered too interesting for servants alone and how Virginia Woolf accidentally baked her wedding ring into a dish. Agatha Christie and Virginia Woolf were contemporaries yes, but they are two very different women. For example: Agatha Christie was not yet part of a great writing circle, whereas the richly born and richly married Woolf was part of the Bloomsbury Group. But nonetheless, Agatha Christie would continue to cook and write and yet, her husband was not too interested in her cooking at all.
By Annie Kapurabout 3 hours ago in Geeks
Boys Don't Read?
It's very clear that by this stage of the post-modern world we have entered the post-literate stage. A few years' back people were using the phrase 'post-truth' to describe the presidency and its lies and later on, the term post-capitalist popped up. But what does the term 'post-literate' actually mean and why are we getting it all wrong?
By Annie Kapurabout 23 hours ago in Psyche
Book Review: "Agatha Christie" by Lucy Worsley (Pt.1)
This section covers the introduction all the way through to chapter 12. Well, perhaps you already know that recently I finished reading Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley after finding it in the shop of the Jane Austen centre just after my birthday. Now, I have moved on to yet another Lucy Worsley biography, yet another well-researched and entertainingly written piece of some considerable detail. Agatha Christie proves so far, to be a wonderful read and, as we press on I hope it will continue to let me into the life and times of one of literature's greatest introverts.
By Annie Kapura day ago in Geeks
I Am Emmanuel Goldstein
The packing floor was drenched with rain through a hole in the roof that nobody had bothered to fix, she stared into it as the bell rang signalling her lunch break. Her book open, she opened up a chicken salad and ate with one hand, reading with the other. Julia chewed silently at the back of the room and read Anna Karenina, struggling to keep the book in one hand since it was so big. She was roughly halfway through and was beginning to think about how rich, decadent and parasitic this society had to be for their biggest problem to be whether a woman was cheating on her husband or not. She was taken out of the story by another woman who turned on the television with a broom, poking it until she found the 'on' button. The static fuzzed about and then that weird show began to play.
By Annie Kapura day ago in Fiction
Book Review: "How We Love" by Clementine Ford
How We Love isn't a book about teaching you how to love, it isn't even a book about the correct way to love. It is a book that tells us the different ways in which love can impact our relationships with ourselves. Now, I may think romantic love is a representation of stupidity, but the way in which the writer describes the ideas of selflessness that is required for all types of love shows us that they possibly aren't all that different within us. She admits that she has made her own mistakes and she doesn't shy away from the difficult topics, and after a lengthy introduction in which we are introduced to the way in which the writer realised that loving boys wasn't worth the returns (and swiftly moved on to women instead) - we are met with the opening in which she talks of her mother's cancer and death.
By Annie Kapur2 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "I Feel Bad About My Neck" by Nora Ephron
Back when I read The Most of Nora Ephron I complained about the fact that the ricotta omelette was absolutely terrible (it was, it was so disgusting I cannot believe she would eat that). But the book itself was absolutely hilarious. Universally female, funny and conversational - Nora Ephron didn't really hold back from showing us the frustrations and microaggresisons women experience every day. Even if that meant they were feeding it to themselves. I Feel Bad About My Next and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman is another one of these books where Nora Ephron takes us on a funny journey through the thoughts of womanhood.
By Annie Kapur3 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Call Them By Their True Names" by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit previously wrote an incredible book called Recollections of My Non-Existence in which my review called it 'fantastic'. Solnit has a special talent for creating universality in her experiences through her incredible use of language. Articulate and yet, not overly verbose, charming without being saccharine, Rebecca Solnit is one of the best writers of our day and is bound to be remembered as a Joan Didion kind of figure in the future. A woman who's craft is as important as the story she writes. And there are very few more important stories to tell than what has been going down with our friends across the Atlantic for the past decade or so. Let us therefore, not mince our words. We should take these atrocities and call them by their true names...
By Annie Kapur4 days ago in Geeks
Rereading Review: "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen
I've decided to try out something called a 'rereading review' in which I will review now and again, a book I have read before. This usually consists of me reading the book again for some reason (usually because I really have an itch for it) and I promise, I won't just fill this up with rereading my favourite book (which I reread every few months anyway). And if you don't know what my favourite book is, then welcome to my page - you're clearly new here.
By Annie Kapur5 days ago in Geeks
"Jane Austen at Home" by Lucy Worsley (Pt.4)
This review covers chapters 27 through to the end of the book, including the epilogue. *** The 'Great House', where which Jane would receive most of her education in grand houses, may have been part of the inspiration for her later writings like the incomplete Sanditon. But apart from this, we have the wit of Emma coming through. Lucy Worsley teaches us of the trepidations that came with publishing Emma and the expectation that it would be the best selling book yet. There was a lot of back and forths for Jane and her publisher, John Murray. She was starting to prove that, like her main character of Emma Woodhouse, she was capable of holding her own.
By Annie Kapur6 days ago in Geeks
Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Temple Bar Magazine first published Aurora Floyd in serial form between the years 1862 and 1863. After that, it was released as a three-volumed novel and has been considered the most successful work of its writer, Mary Elizabeth Braddon after her sensational Lady Audley's Secret. Melodramatic and filled with domestic intrigue, the story captivated Victorian readers and contributed to those novels which often critique the models of sensibility, preached but not practiced, by the upper class.
By Annie Kapur7 days ago in Geeks
"Jane Austen at Home" by Lucy Worsley (Pt.3)
This review covers chapters 19 through to 26. *** As we continue through the story of Jane, Lucy Worsley gives us something to chew on. We get the story of the first writing of my personal favourite Austen novel, Northanger Abbey - originally entitled Susan. The 'chewing' is to decide exactly when it was being forged. There are known bursts of it in 1798 and 1799, but as the author states, there is certain inspiration from another book that wasn't published until 1801. It is a direct representation that though we may know much about Jane Austen's life from her letters, her everyday mapped out for us, her dislikes and likes seen clearly - we still don't really have the minutae of her writings. It is a bit here and there. Again, maybe this was done on purpose. Jane Austen was clever enough to keep those who didn't need to know in the dark about her actual intentions for the writings and when they were held out.
By Annie Kapur7 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Jane Austen at Home" by Lucy Worsley (Pt.2)
This review covers chapters 10 through to 18. *** Chapter 10, entitled 'Novels' covers Jane's written beginnings. We get to see inside the first formations of the novel that would become Sense and Sensibility and how, in installments, she would read it per evening to her family. These were novels written in letters, which were not in fashion and had not been for decades. I'm quite surprised and filled with joy that such an incredible woman existed in a place where more than often, extra-curricular activities outside that of being a wife and mother were not considered very important. However, her father thought them important enough to buy his daughter a writing desk with many drawers. This single act of encouragement was definitely a play to make sure his daughter continued to show her passions - a man clearly ahead of his time and fond of his daughters.
By Annie Kapur8 days ago in Geeks
