Book Review: The Last One

So I finally tried listening to my first Audiobook, something that has been on my bucket list for so long but kept on putting off because there is this unnecessary fear that I might not understand the story. As you know, English is not my native language and I have this doubt that I might be wasting my time listening to something that I would not understand because of the accent. Heh. But anyway, I tried because first and foremost, I want to make my walking activities as productive and as less boring as possible. I already mentioned in my…

Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is no other way to put this, but the Picture of Dorian Gray is tantalizingly despicable. Tagged as horror in Goodreads, I was not prepared that this is even darker than Frankenstein. The reader might at first find comfort at reading the almost poetic prose but as you delve deeper into the story, you will find that it’s almost perverse. How can the writing exude such lyricism when the story is about this boy whose life story is as deplorable as it can be? Can you imagine looking at something so horrid that it’s mesmerizing and that you cannot…