Are novels in QuotationsAugust 22, 2022 – 08:50 am
I wish it happened more often, but only about once every five years do I read an author who makes my forever list—meaning, till the end of time, I’ll read any- and everything they write: novels, ad copy, grocery lists, their grandmother’s obituary…you name it. Such is the case for Adam Resnick. Reading his recently released Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation was pretty much akin to a dream date. Two minutes into the book…
Latest novels in IndianAugust 22, 2022 – 08:50 am
I can not read Hindi very well, and I have not read too many English novels written by Indian authors, but here is my list from the books that I read - in no particular order Malgudi Days - RK Narayan It is a collection of short stories - each of which deftly describes an aspect of life in a small Indian town of 1940s One of the Indian classics, I think this book is extremely entertaining, and is an all time favourtie of mine. Volga se Ganga - Rahul…
YA novels About OrchestraAugust 22, 2022 – 08:50 am
When Katherine Heiny was 25, she mailed a short story to the New Yorker on a Thursday and received a call from the fiction editor on Friday. “I didn’t even know the mail worked that fast, ” Heiny says. “It’s like an urban legend.” The story, “How To Give The Wrong Impression, ” was about a psychology student who tries to make it seem like her roommate is her boyfriend. In 1997, a few years after appearing in the New Yorker, the story was anthologized…
Visual novels like ever 17August 17, 2022 – 11:33 am
I ve played quite a few visual novels. While it has extra gameplay elements in it I still consider Hotel Dusk Room 215 to be a visual novel and it s my favorite American one. My other favorite Japanese visual novel is YU-NO which is almost 20 years old but pioneered a lot of the ideas used in visual novels that came after it. They are actually doing a remake of YU-NO for consoles which has me excited since I found it to be the best visual novel I…
Tamil novelsAugust 16, 2022 – 07:05 am
The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy, novel set in Tamil Nadu, India. If it is possible for a book to be too clever for its own good, then this is it. Kandasamy sets about giving us a fictionalised version of the massacre that took place in the village of Kilvenmani on Christmas Day 1968 when 44 Dalit agricultural labourers, including women and children, were locked in a hut by a group of landowners and burnt alive. Or rather, she doesn’t give us…
Visual novels About romanceAugust 15, 2022 – 08:48 am
If you don’t know what a visual novel is, that’s understandable – the medium never quite took off in America. It’s a Japan-dominated video game genre that is essentially a mashup between choose-your-own-adventure books and manga. That might sound juvenile to non-players, but fans know that the medium is capable of immense depth, and visual novels regularly make it into the anime scene. Yet, anime that have been based off of visual novels are known…
Visual novels in EnglishJuly 31, 2022 – 07:55 am
Back in October, we took a look at the seven official Attack on Titan games coming out in Japan. Of these, four are visual novels included on the Japanese Blu-rays. Of course, if you can’t speak Japanese, there’s a good chance you’ll never be able to experience these side stories—until now, that is. But more than simply translating the script, the WFT team is adding in a few screen shots and the accompanying background music to set the stage as you…
