My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 8/10 In the novel, Shafak tells two parallel stories centered around two families: the Turkish Kazanchis and the Armenian Chachmakhchians. What I found especially interesting is that even the surnames carry meaning. Kazanchi and Chachmakhchian are both common surnames found among Armenians and Turks.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 9/10I don’t remember another Turkish writer becoming as famous in Armenia as Elif Shafak, especially considering the historically complex and often strained Armenian-Turkish relationship. So, you can imagine my skepticism when I first started reading The Forty Rules of Love.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 9/10 Author: Marie CorelliGenre: Detective, Mystic novelPublication: 1895Number of pages: 374 Can the devil be a positive character? This is the question I kept asking myself while reading Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan. It seems like the novel is at the…
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 10/10 Author: Fyodor DostoyevskiGenres: NovelOriginally Published: 1869Number of pages: 932 Dostoevsky’s The Idiot is one of my most favorite novels, telling the story of a perfect and innocent man living in our non-perfect and definitely non-innocent society. The book touches on themes…
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 9/10 Author: Aldous HuxleyOriginally published: February 4, 1932Genres: Novel, Science fiction, Dystopian FictionNumber of pages: 268 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Summary and Review I loved this book! It’s incredibly unique, and even though Aldous Huxley wrote it in 1931, it remains popular and timeless….