I recently finished reading a collection titled the selected poems of Byron, Keats and Shelly. The sense of being alone is a constant theme in the books I’ve read this past year. […]
Isolation in Literature
Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Title: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Author: John Keats, Jane Campion (Introduction) The very first poem I read by John Keats was ‘La Belle Dame […]
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon was one of my first forays into the fantasy genre. I discovered this book through the tv show. Upon reading the book, I found myself drawn towards Gabaldon’s […]
Reflections on Reading
As a new year has begun, I find myself thinking about the books that read last year and those that I would like to read in the current year. I understand that […]
Literary Lows and Highs
I look out at an almost crescent moon that lights up the clear summer sky. The trees cast ghostly shadows in the dark as the breeze glides over and under. With the […]
Shayan Afzal 