World LiteraTour
Reading the World’s Greatest Stories
New blog posts every Tuesday and Friday on languages and literature from around the world, from the most ancient classics to the newest releases
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Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk Synopsis Journalist Faiz Siddiqui, who has been following Elon Musk’s life and career closely for several years, lays out the meteoric rise and beginnings of the puzzling fall of the world’s richest man. How on earth did we get here?? My Review The past 3 months have felt…
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Just a little blog update to let interested parties know that I’m going to have to scale back my posting for a little while. I’m going through a big life change right now, so I need to relax my schedule a bit and not pressure myself to post certain things on certain days. I’m also…
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The Top 100 Canadian Books of All Time Greatest Canadian books? As a proud Canadian as well as a passionate literature buff, I’ve often tried to find the definitive answer to the question, “What are the greatest Canadian books of all time?” The problem is, it’s not really a question that seems to be explored…
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Ancient Egyptian Language and Literature: From the Old Kingdom to the New Introduction When you think of Ancient Egyptian as a language, you probably think of the famous hieroglyphs (such as those pictured left) drawn or engraved all over Egypt’s ancient tombs, but did you know that there was another, less formal writing system that…
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Hello and welcome to my reading wrap-up for the month of March! March was a huge reading month for me, but I’ve actually posted about most of the books I read already, so this will just be a brief recap of my thoughts on each. As usual, each book title contains a clickable link to…
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I’ve been a fan of The Hunger Games franchise since shortly after the second movie came out. After watching the first two movies, I immediately sought out the books to find out what happened next, and I was pleasantly surprised by the intellectual depth and the subtle allegory in Collins’ writing. The original trilogy are some of…
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Hello! Thanks for checking out my blog! This will be a more informal, chatty post than usual. I’ve been working on this blog for 3 months now, and I’m starting to get an idea of what works and what doesn’t, so I have some updates to share about changes I’ll be making here and there.…
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The Shivers is a collection of short stories by some of horror’s greatest contemporary writers: Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Catriona Ward, and Owen King. It will become available on Amazon in ebook and audiobook formats on April 15, but I was granted early access by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.…
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Goodreads blurb: The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault…
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The Tao Te Ching (pronounced more like Dow Day Jing) or “Book of the Way” is, simply put, the greatest self-help book of all time. While Lao Tzu’s words of wisdom launched Taoism and influenced Chinese philosophy, Confucianism, and Buddhism, anyone of any religion or belief system could apply its teachings and find themselves living a…