REVIEWS

The review was written on Feb 25, 2024 by Erene. The short story The Birds by British writer Daphne du Maurier is one of her short stories of the 1952 collection. Daphne’s craving for paranormal elements led to her horror genre classification, which inspired Alfred Hitchcock to make a film adaptation of “The Birds.” However, was The Birds actually a horror novel only narrowing down to paranormal events portrayed in it? I’ll come up with some concepts of existing conflicts in the story, after providing a synopsis of the novel...

Amid a faded backdrop of all these consequences of the pandemic and sanctions, as well as a mass exodus of workforce due to a precipitous economic decline, the leapfrogging amidst politicians has ensued. In the meantime, like a jack-in-the-box, the nimblest western journalists are putting in an appearance in the media’s columns, in the pursuit of thriving on the newest term that has gone viral lately. They are just waiting for any opportune moment to fuel the readership’s interest and raise their own particular game...

The preface It is not easy to admit to your own fallibility and become the object of resentment. Anyone ever coloured themselves a fool? Broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles has! He, therefore, allows himself to criticise people’s consumerism. A penny for your thoughts ! I don’t know why , but his words “Our ridiculous addiction to acquiring more possessions is stuffing up the planet,…” brought back my memories of the moment when I was on a plane in 2018. I remember them announcing ‘We landed at MAN International, please don’t forget your belongings...

My Review of the Article written by Ben Okri, a Nigerian novelist and poet --- "Fear of Covid-19 is a mental contagion – and that's something we can fight”. In his abstract, Ben Okri attempts to get his warnings over fears through to the reader by drawing attention to the problem of hysteria that takes over people's minds, which sends in chaos at these uncertain times, caused by the Covid infection, sapping people's confidence in the future. At the very beginning, the author contrasts the two mental states such as panic and awareness...