Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


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  • Prose and Poetry
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  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction

    1. The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy  2nd year text *This book features child sexual abuse, domestic violence and other kinds of violence, graphically depicted. “At Papachi’s funeral, Mammachi cried and her contact lenses slid around in her eyes. Ammu told the twins that Mammachi was crying… Continue reading

    Prose and Poetry
    Aldous Huxley, Arundhati Roy, Brave New World, Jane Austen, Karen Joy Fowler, Northanger Abbey, Sarah Hall, The God of Small Things, The Wolf Border, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

About

If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Recent Posts

  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)
  • Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter, division of HarperCollins, 2023)
  • Review: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Dial Press, 1974)
  • ‘Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous’: Civilisation & Barbarism in Titus Andronicus and Othello

Recent Posts

  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)
  • Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter, division of HarperCollins, 2023)

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