QuickLitReviews

A blog reviewing everything from classics to those most criticised - QuickLitReviews gives a quick and short review on a variety of literature, helping all will their next book choice!

[jamiesshelves]

Deciding between hardcover and paperback

Me seeing a hardcover book: OH MY GOD THATS SO PRETTY AND UNDERNEATH THE DUST JACKET IS GORGEOUS I NEED TO OWN THIS NOW!!! IT MUST BE MINE!!

Me seeing the same book in paperback: OH MY GOD THIS BOOK IS STUNNING!!!! THE SPINE IS JUST FGHJKL GORGEOUS!!! I WANT THIS ONE TOO!!

[theheroinenextdoor]

21 Writers On Their Favorite Bookstores

The choices are as personal as the experience of reading a book.

Three Lives is my favorite New York bookstore, but Hatchard’s is my favorite overall. Blackwell’s, too, but it’s not on the list. 

[absinthundrosen]

[the-dark-city]

The 39 Steps (1935)

[andyswarhol]

The 39 Steps dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, 1935.

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‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ - John Buchan

‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ is a small, thin and easy read from Scottish author John Buchan. It is an adventure novel set in 1914 in the United Kingdom telling the story of Richary hannay, a soon-to-be hero who must thwart a plot in order to help his country.

A thriling tale full of twists and turns it is an interesting and quick read for any lover of traditional adventure.

-Tara

[anatomy--of--melancholy]

[c-h-i-c-l-e-t-e-s]

[hirxeth]

“You know, you can be kind of harsh sometimes.”

We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) dir.  Lynne Ramsay

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International posters for Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin

[true-pain]

Just because you’re used to something doesn’t mean you like it.

[wesandresons]

It’s like this: you wake and watch TV, get in your car and listen to the radio you go to your little jobs or little school, but you don’t hear about that on the 6 o’clock news, why? ‘Cause nothing is really happening, and you go home and watch some more TV and maybe it’s a fun night and you go out and watch a movie. I mean it’s got so bad that half the people on TV, inside the TV, they’re watching TV. What are these people watching, people like me? (We Need to Talk About Kevin, 2011 )

[fatifer]

Kevin Khatchadourian, in We Need to Talk About Kevin, 2011, directed by Lynne Ramsay.

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‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ - Lionel Shriver

A deserved winner of many literary prizes, Lionel Shriver’s ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ is perhaps one of the best novels I have read in a long time. Written from the perspective of mother of Kevin, Eva Khatadourian, Eva tells the story of how she came to be Kevin’s mother and how she deals with the atrocious crime he commits days before his 16th birthday. 

Through a series of letters to her husband, Franklin, the reader is given an insight into Eva’s mind and through her memories sees the troubled relationship she has with Kevin and her difficulty in finding a way to love him and finding a way to deal with the repurcussions of his actions.

A brilliant work of literature, although difficult to get through the first few chapters, Shriver’s ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ is an excellent work of literature that I would highly recommend. It not only portrays the struggle of a mother’s affections, but highlights the long-developing debate of whether or not people are born evil, or if they are shaped to be so - nature vs. nurture.

-Tara 

[afterthefirstline]

I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me.

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (via afterthefirstline)