27.Mar.2008 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007, James Tait Black Prize in 2006, and a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. I was sorely disappointed with this book. I read it by the recommendation of a colleague, and many other people who quoted that this was their [...]
17.Feb.2008 Atonement by Ian McEwan
The setting of Atonement is Talli’s family house in 1935. A 13 years old girl with strong imagination, Briony, had witnessed a series of events between her sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the family’s childhood friend. At the end of the day, Briony made a mistake that affects the lives of all three, a crime [...]