All it really takes to hook a person to a good book, is the opening line.
Though they are stand alone sentences, they lure and entice (sometimes quite literally) the readers to discover more.
I recently happened to glance at the opening passage of Gary Shteyngart’s forthcoming novel, Super Sad True Love Story and it read,
“Today I’ve made a major decision: I am never going to die. Others will die around me. They will be ...
Here are some more books that you shouldn’t miss.
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
War And Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Possession – A. S. Byatt
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
The House...
In this blog, we make an attempt to highlight some of the best short-story writers. Moving into the abyss of psychoanalysis, Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) wrote some of the best short stories. The Imp and the Peasant’s Bread is an example of Tolstoy’s concept of good and evil. He highlighted the naivety and goodness of human nature juxtaposing evil. His thoughts and characterization bordered on the ascetic and the real and his writ...
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