This is my private rant on “The Handmaid’s Tale”, so I suggest that you proceed with caution unless you want your interpretation of The Handmaid’s Tale to be permanently damaged. (The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel by Margaret Atwood, a Canadian author. It is essentially about a handmaid’s experience in a dystopian theocratic republic that has [...Read more...]
One of my favourite sci-fi authors mentioned the book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes in a novel, so I decided to read it to channel the TOK spirit. It is definitely a “TOK” book because of all the deep Knowledge Issues that are present within it, [...Read more...]
Finished ‘Potter’? Rowling tells what happens next If you found the epilogue of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” rather vague, then J.K. Rowling achieved her goal. The author was shooting for “nebulous,” something “poetic.” She wanted the readers to feel as if they were looking at Platform 9¾ through the mist, unable to make [...Read more...]
Source: Wikipedia . . . . . Keep on scrolling… . . . . . . . . . . . Beginning of book The book begins at the home of Lucius Malfoy, with Snape and a Ministry official, Yaxley, informing Lord Voldemort of the date Harry Potter intends to leave the Dursley’s house. Voldemort borrows Lucius [...Read more...]