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War And Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
With the sweet bliss of having absolutely nothing to do wearing off and existential ennui threatening to push me over the edge, I desperately needed a long, epic, boring novel that would keep me sufficiently busy till my winter break ended. Picking up War and Peace after seven years, I had forgotten most of the…
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Rebecca was recommended to me by my ninth grade English teacher. I found a tattered copy in the school library; the cover had a scene from the 1979 BBC adaptation on it. I loved it immensely, mainly because my fourteen-year-old self swooned over the romance between the unnamed narrator and the handsome, brooding widower, Maxim…
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We usually tend to associate loneliness with old age; it is always taken for granted that most young people have promising careers and busy social lives. In such a world, twenty-nine-year-old Eleanor Oliphant is branded a “Jacko Wacko”, destined to solitary evenings “tucked up in bed with a cup of cocoa and a copy of…
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