Author: Vanessa Geneviève

If reading books means idling, let’s idle correctly! Here I discuss about books, personal life, and short stories. Feel free to email me at: literature.coffee[at]gmail.com

Guide for reading War and Peace

Many people have fear from reading this book. They think it’s thick, will take a long time to finish, and it must be a difficult read. Well, it’s true that it’s a thick book. And you can use it to slap someone [not saying you should do it. But you can ;)], but the chapters are short. It starts with a society party, where many of the novel’s characters are introduced.

This Earth of Mankind

This is the first book in Buru Quartet series. It’s a fenomenal, Indonesian classic written by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. It’s such a page-turner. Here’s my reviews and comment about this book.

Pachinko

In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant—and that her lover is married—she refuses to be bought.

Happy New Year 2025!

A lot of things have happened, both bad and good. But I haven’t stopped reading! My last post here was in 2021! OMG! What a sad, and isolated year back then. Pandemic has hit hard, huh? The lessons I learned from COVID19 are: