The X Bookshelf

The only dedicated bookshelf for X users! Not affiliated to X. Recommending the best books to curious readers. We post book review, opinions & literature stuff.

[The X Bookshelf @X_BookShelf]

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“It is not the quantity of reading but the quality of engagement that defines literary worth.”

~ Dr Alok Mishra

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[The X Bookshelf @X_BookShelf]

Poetry, the story of its struggle and survival and beyond: Editorial by Dr Alok Mishra

#Poems #Writing #Critical #opinion #Insight #Creativity #IndianBookCritics

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“A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.”

~ Haruki Murakami

#Quotes #Craft #Fiction #Writing #Reading #Books

#TheXBookShelf

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[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

20 Indian Women English Novelists You Must Read – A Journey Across Time, Identity, and Imagination

#Authors #Novels #Books #Reading #Writing #Literature

via @TCriticdotCom (Thoughtful Critic)

https://t.co/U2KuNmXlVQ

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as a collective conscience.”

~ Dr Alok Mishra

(Poet, Literary Critic
& Professor of English Literature)

#Quotes #Thoughts #Literature #Reading #Writing #Classic

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

~ Stephen King

#Writing #Books #Author #Writer #Fiction #Literature

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

Literary Qualities or Merits of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene – An Analysis

https://t.co/l9bqVlE3sx

[The Last Critic @The_Last_Critic]

Waiting for the guys to come live with the new project, as vast as the promising name sounds – The “Asian Book Critics”.

All the best in advance, and hope to see more soon!

#Books #Critic #Literature #Reading #Writing

@TheABCritics

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

“What do I want from #literature? Do I merely seek comfort, entertainment, prestige, or am I in search of something nobler—wisdom, empathy, truth? The way we #read ultimately shapes who we are. And who we are determines what kind of #world we wish to build.”

~ Dr Alok Mishra

[The X Bookshelf @X_BookShelf]

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”

~ Arthur Miller

#Quotes #Life #Literature #Book #Writing #Reading #Fiction

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Death in Poetry and Philosophy: When the eyes are closed, the insight illuminates – The Final Note

#Editorial #Article #Expression #Spiritual #Life #Indian #Literature #Writing #DrAlokMishra #IndianBookCritics

https://t.co/O47PPB8rJg

[The Last Critic @The_Last_Critic]

“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”

~ Ian McEwan
(Atonement)

#Quotes #Fiction #Reading #Writing #Novels #Author #Writer #Books

[Thoughtful Critic @TCriticdotCom]

How to Read Friedrich Nietzsche? A Guide for Beginners to reading his novels and philosophical writings

https://t.co/uS93xOCoob

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

~ Ray Bradbury

#Books #Reading #Wisdom #Quotes #Culture #Authors #Writing

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

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“No, no gods or wild beasts live in solitude! Only those who solve the mystery of what lurks behind the skins we wear enjoy the bliss of solitude and sing the divine lyrics with nature acting as the chorus.”

~ Dr Alok Mishra

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[Thoughtful Critic @TCriticdotCom]

“Thoughts Between Life and Death by Dr Alok Mishra is more than a collection of poems; it is a philosophical and visual tapestry. The poems oscillate between intimacy and universality, despair and hope, loss and transcendence.”

#BookReview #Poems #Poetry #Life #Writing #Reading

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

T. S. Eliot – Introduction

Read an introduction to the poet, critic, dramatist and one of the most famous literary personalities of the 20th century, T. S. Eliot.

#Notes #Articles #EnglishLiterature #Critique

https://t.co/he12p6SImv

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

~ J.K. Rowling

#Quotes #Life #Thoughts #Wisdom #Fiction #Novel #Reading #Writing

[English Literature Education @EngLiterature_E]

“... to satisfy the deviant desire to mingle two unlikely perspectives and conjure a whole, too new for Donne’s society to fully comprehend and appreciate or even denounce authoritatively.”

~ Dr Alok Mishra

#Donne #Metaphysical #Poetry #Poems #EnglishLiterature #Writing