September 2018 Reads

September marks exactly a year since I ended my Masters programme. To say it’s been a busy year would be an understatement. But interestingly enough, it’s also been my most personally productive. And by that I mean that while being in university forced me to be academically on the ball, being away from it has made me realise how much of my personal ambitions I had put to the side to focus on school. This blog, for example, has been a desire of mine and Z’s for years, but it only came to fruition after ending school, and having the…

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Book Review: “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje

The Trauma of the Post-War Generation In the second review from the Man Booker longlist, Warlight by Michael Ondaatje proved a much more intense read than the crime-thriller Snap by Linda Bauer. A Canadian writer born in Sri Lanka, Ondaatje is an author of high regard, having won the Man Booker prize once before for his internationally acclaimed novel, The English Patient, and similarly winning the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018 (the prize conceived to celebrate 50 years of the Man Booker which awards one book per decade a prize) for the same novel. To all those who know…

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