Annie Kapur
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English Lecturer
ðLiterature & Writing (B.A)
ðFilm & Writing (M.A)
ðSecondary English Education (PgDipEd) (QTS)
ðBirmingham, UK
Stories (1974/0)
Book Review: "Bright Young Women" by Jessica Knoll
âAbsurdly, I placed an order for a Venti Chai Latte while Judge Lambert famously told The Defendant that someday soon a current of electricity would pass through his body until he was pronounced dead by the warden, and that he should, even more absurdly, take care of himself.â - Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
By Annie Kapurabout 11 hours ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Can't Even" by Anne Helen Petersen
I have turned my nonfiction attention to a book about my generation: the millennials. Many books about the millennials state the same sorts of things including: how we grew up and are thus living pieces of the worst economic era since the great depression, how we are basically doomed from the beginning and the newer one is that now we are approaching the middle of our lives, our health is essentially failing us.
By Annie Kapura day ago in Geeks
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When the Second World War broke out, the author of (the yet to be written) âThe Little Princeâ was a pilot in the French Army and, when Germany beat France, he flew to North America intending to help fight the Nazis - becoming a voice for the French Resistance movement. Drawing on experience of being in the Sahara Desert which were initially outlined in his memoirs written earlier, he is thought to have conceived the idea for what would become one of the greatest childrenâs stories ever told.
By Annie Kapur2 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Tell Me How This Ends" by Jo Leevers
Now, I am a big fan of the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and admittedly, I have to catch up on what they are reading. One of the books they have covered is called Tell Me How This Ends by Jo Leevers. A book which is brilliantly structured with some really great characters, it is honestly one of the best thriller fiction novels I have read this year (sorry to the Dexter series, but you don't really come that close, no matter how beautifully sardonic you are). Jo Leever's writing style brings out individual voices in a way that when you do read the book, is actually a massive achievement. It makes you really feel like you're reading converging stories rather than one writer writing in a few different tones. Leevers has done something quite incredible here.
By Annie Kapur3 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Gravedigger's Daughter" by Joyce Carol Oates
âThree days later on October 29, 1959, the Pontiac registered in the name of Niles Tignor would be discovered, gas tank near-empty, keys on the floorboards beneath the front seat, in a parking lot close by the Greyhound bus station in Rome, New York.â - The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
By Annie Kapur4 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Sedated" by James Davies
Full Title: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies I am still on my nonfiction binge and honestly, I am a little bit worried I might be 'doom reading' myself into sadness but I'm not sure whether I want to stop just yet. This book is called Sedated and is about the over-medicalisation and over-medicating of our entire culture despite the fact in the past 20 years, there has been way more of a focus on mental health. I am glad that we seem to be waking up to something I said about five years' ago. The question is: if there is so much emphasis on mental health help and wellbeing then why is it that our mental health across the western world has progressively been plummeting? Well, its our entire culture that is causing it. It goes from the over-medicating of our everyday ill feelings all the way to our disengagement with our work and even further.
By Annie Kapur5 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "How They Broke Britain" by James O'Brien
There are times when you find a really good book and think to yourself 'I'm going to savour this one'. Then there are books like this where it is still really good but instead you think 'ah, let's relive this trauma...' The showboating carousel of politics in the UK has definitely been in shambles since 2010 but the efforts of the kangaroo cabinet of the Pandemic Era definitely took the biscuit as quite possibly the worst case scenario. Brexit had not been delivered properly, a global virus was spreading quickly and the folks of the United Kingdom were trapped in their homes being led by a bumbling fool of a Prime Minister and his horrific attempts at government which mainly involved him covering up lies he'd told the previous day. In an era that will definitely turn into a case study, this book doesn't just teach us about the things we didn't know, but makes us realise how what we did know was just ridiculous.
By Annie Kapur6 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Mothering Sunday" by Graham Swift
âWords were like an invisible skin, enwrapping the world and giving it reality. Yet you could not say the world would not be there, would not be real if you took away the words. At best it seemed that things might bless the words that distinguished them, and that words might bless everything.â - Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift.
By Annie Kapur7 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Social Distance Between Us" by Darren McGarvey
Another review, another great work of nonfiction that I am reading to meet my nonfiction goals this year. 2024 has undoubtedly been a great year for nonfiction books and has featured many that I have actually enjoyed reading (some a little bit more than fiction as well). This particular book focuses on how inequality in Britain is becoming worse in terms of class divides. The name might suggest it is mainly about the pandemic, but this is not the case.
By Annie Kapur8 days ago in Geeks
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Known as one of the most conflicting English novels of the war eras and represents the greater age concerning the downfall of the aristocracy. Itâs full title being âBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryderâ leaves a lot to be imagined about what is so âprofaneâ about these memories and why the other memories are opposing these. Charles Ryder is the main character of a narrative that spans somewhere to 20 years and it tells the story of his relations with a strange aristocratic family named âThe Flytesâ.
By Annie Kapur9 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Limitarianism" by Ingrid Robeyns
I was seeing this book everywhere on the Penguin Books Twitter page and on news websites regarding newly released nonfiction. Had I ever wanted to read a book about economic inequality? No. Why? I'll be frank. I find it difficult to understand economic jargon. So again, I have had to sit with Google open in order to look up things I don't fully understand. In this relatively short book, the author seems to go through many ideas about how 'limitarianism' could work and basically makes a great case against having a large sum of wealth which could in turn, increase economic inequality. Let's take a look at some of the main talking points and what I thought of them.
By Annie Kapur10 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" by Gabor Mate
At the core of every addiction is an emptiness based in abject fear. The addict dreads and abhors the present moment; she bends feverishly only toward the next time, the moment when her brain, infused with her drug of choice, will briefly experience itself as liberated from the burden of the past and the fear of the futureâthe two elements that make the present intolerable. - 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' by Gabor Mate
By Annie Kapur11 days ago in Geeks