Lily Briscoe's Book Blog

  Co-winner of the booker prize 2019, this book is written as a compilation of narratives of 12 women in various treads of life of all ages, all societal statuses and all sexual preferences. The characters explored in detail are given separate sections within the chapters of the book and they are: Amma, Yazz, Dominique, Carole, Bummi, La Tisha, Shirley, Winesome, Penelope, Megan/Morgan, Hattie and Grace. This story describes the various lives of British people of color. Numerous issues and political topics are addressed through the eyes of these several generations of people and we can see how the lives have progressed and what else is yet to be acknowledged and brought into light. Issues of feminism, transphobia, gender fluidity are directly addressed in the narrative as well. It is very well written in a way that we were brought into the conversation with our own prejudice, thoughts and opinions. Moving on to the 12 characters I found that even though some characters were richly ...

  'To the lighthouse' is an extraordinary work of literature which dwells into the consciousness of the human mind. The basic plot of novel is around a family 'The Ramsay's and there friends and admirers. The Ramsay's have 8 kids and the other acquaintances are Lily Briscoe, William Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael, Charles Tansley, Minta Doyle and Paul Rayley. This crowd is vacationing in an island in Scotland one Summer. the story unfolds with the young son of the Ramsay's, James wanting to go to the lighthouse and his father telling him that the weather conditions are not suitable for that. The novel is set during a period of 11 years. The first section 'The window' is set before the World War 1 and the final section 'The Lighthouse' is set 11 years later. However the actual scenes of the novel concentrate on 2 days only. One before the way and the other after.  This is not a plot driven novel. As soon as we get into the novel we get dragged int...

Main characters:   We are introduced to the narrator as Susanne. Also known as Sanna . Her brother : Algin Algin's wife : Liska Liska's friend from handicrafts: Gerti Gerti is in love with : Dieter Aaron (non- Aryan) Liska is in an affair with: Heini Sanna is in love with: Franz Herr Kulmbach Betty Raff: seems to be friendly with both algin and his wife Liska. (in an affair with Algin) Franz's mother: Sanna's Aunt, Adelheid Kurt Pielman: also in love with Gerti   Chapter 1   The opening of the book we seem to be introduced to a bar of some sort. Where we get to know a little bit about the main characters. Sanna's relationship with each person and how she knows them are presented in her point of view.   We are also introduced to a suspense with regard to Franz's letter which apparently had no explanation. We get to know of Aunt Adelheid and her pro-Nazi agendas as well.   The love between Gerti and Dieter is deemed t...