Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


  • About
  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • My 2025 in Books*

    *This includes audiobooks because 2025 was my first foray into listening to books alongside reading them with my own eyes. As you can tell, it was a year of many adventures. Read: Did not finish (DNF): Parked (to pick up another time): 1. Animal Farm by George Orwell (Secker and… Continue reading

    Book Reviews, Prose and Poetry
    Animal Farm, Charlotte Bronte, Confronting Christianity, Dane Ortlund, George Orwell, Jane Eyre, Jennette McCurdy, Knife Skills for Beginners, Meghan Ryan Asbury, Orlando Murrin, Rebecca McLaughlin
  • Views From Sixteen: The Books That Impacted Me The Most Between Sixteen and Eighteen

    This is a list of some of the books that have had the biggest impact on my thinking or were earth-shattering for me in some way. Coincidentally, these are all books I read at sixteen or seventeen while studying for my A-Levels (not my A-Level texts themselves) so maybe there’s… Continue reading

    Prose and Poetry
    bell hooks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Gillian Flynn, Graeme Macrae Burnet, J.R.R Tolkien, Kathryn Stockett, Khaled Hosseini, Maya Angelou, Octavia Butler, Vladimir Nabokov

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: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)

Recent Posts

  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction

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