Before I dive into my review of Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (henceforth abbreviated ZMM), I must make two small confessions. Firstly, I struggled to finish reading this book. In fact, I stopped at one point around page one hundred and forty, and...
Men Without Women is the fourth book that I’ve read from acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Despite being familiar with Murakami’s writing, I found this collection of stories distinct from his other works of fiction yet at the same time oddly...
“Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silence? Is it this belonging, this completeness?” Chimamanda Ngozi Adicie’s sophomore novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is nothing short of a...
I found Michael Shaw Bond’s book, Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way, to be an insightful resource for understanding how we as humans orient ourselves and navigate through the world, in all it’s complexity. Bond is skilled at...
The best way I can sum up A Grain of Wheat, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, is that it captures the essence of Kenya. Having visted the country on several occasions over the past decade I found the description of the landscape, customs and behavior of the cast of...
I have mixed feelings about The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste. On the one hand I thoroughly enjoyed the exquisite lyrical prose of Mengiste’s writing, which roped me into the story almost from the very beginning. She is able to express seemingly indescribable...
