book-review – Booked, For Life

Acts of Defiance: The Bluest Eye, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Over the last couple of months, I have been part of a small local book club. Totally normal, right? Well, this book club has one small particularity…We only read banned books. Over the past two months, I have fallen in love with classics that I had read before. Let’s be honest, they went right over…

March 30, 2024

Daniela Pifferrer

book-review, Inspirational

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The Darcy Myth: On the Concept of Women and Romance Novels

I am a sucker for a good love story. As a writer and a reader, romance books were my first introduction to the genre. I am unashamed to say that I own more Nora Roberts novels than I can count; albeit not because I chose to collect them, but rather because they, in some way…

February 3, 2024

Daniela Pifferrer

book-review, Inspirational

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Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut: A Pleasure to Burn

Anybody with a high school diploma has probably, by now, heard the famous line. “It was a pleasure to burn.” So opens Bradbury his novel about the condemnation of books and the destruction of ideas. Its protagonist, Guy Montag, a firefighter with a dry home life, no children, a distant wife. Montag’s job is to…

January 26, 2024

Daniela Pifferrer

book-review

book-review, books, fahrenheit-451, freedom, George Orwell, ideas, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury