Annie Kapur
Bio
I am:
🙋🏽♀️ Annie
📚 Avid Reader
📝 Reviewer and Commentator
🎓 Post-Grad Millennial (M.A)
***
I have:
📖 300K+ reads on Vocal
🫶🏼 Love for reading & research
🦋/X @AnnieWithBooks
***
🏡 UK
Stories (2864)
Filter by community
50 Greatest Short Stories of All Time
For as long as writing has been around, short stories have been around as well. A Short Story is mostly defined as a story that has all the themes, characters and plots that would be considered for a novel but, it just does not have the length of one. Most people consider it to be around 1'600 to 20'000 words in length and so, it is much short than what a novel would be considered to be.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
The Greatest Booker Prize Winning Books of All Time
The Booker Prize, formerly the Man Booker Prize, is one of the most important events of the year for people like me. It is a prize offered for some of the best books written in the year. I love learning about the new books out every year and with the winners, you can definitely see what the reading trends are across the world and, with political and social climates, you can probably tell why.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
My 5 Favourite Authors of All Time
As we know by now, I love to read. And although I did Film and Writing for my MA, I still did Literature for my BA and I still love to read as much as I love to analyse horror films. When it comes down to it, literature is quite possibly one of the greatest mediums for entertainment ever. People who think that reading is boring are they kinds of people you do not need in your life. Literature is amazing and authors are the creators of it.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
Five Books I Was Obsessed with When I Was 18
When I was 18, I had this weird thing called, "I have no friends, but I have a ton of books, so I guess I'm good..." And in reality, we call that being a nerd. To break it down, I used to read and eat cheese in great amounts—so, not so much different to today, then.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
The Greatest Ghost Stories Ever Written
Ghost stories are often called some of the scariest pieces of writing of all time, and they make up a great majority of the horror genre. Written from the beginning of literature onwards, people have always been interested in the movements of those who are already gone and have written many stories for and about them. Some are based on real experiences, some are completely fictitious (well, you better hope they are) and some have grounding in historical or fantastical realities.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Horror
40 Books from the 1920s
As the 2020s approaches, it is time to look back on to the decade that is probably best to relate it to. The 1920s, also coined as "the Jazz Age" or the "Roaring 20s," was an age of progressive gender relations, an age of decadence and finally, with the Wall Street Market Crash, an age of absolute terror by the end of the decade.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
30 Great Books of the 1940s
With race, gender, and politics becoming evermore popular, the 1940s were probably most famous for bringing everyone together during one of the most violent wars in human history: World War II. As the world rose against Adolf Hitler, books and films took over the shelves and screen to become the most popular forms of entertainment—and music was roaring out in the most stylish of fashions.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
My Favourite Books of All Time
I love sharing book lists with people and I love it even more when people contact me telling me that they've enjoyed some of the stuff they've read by me and taken away one or two books from the list to read. I rarely do lists concerning my personal favourite books of all time and yet, I know that I should because there are people out there that should know that I am not just about the classics.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
30 Great Books of the 1980s
There were many great things about the 1980s, first of all there was the music. The music of the 80s was the beginning of the dance scene, which was a smooth mixture between the synth of the 70s and the pop music that was slowly climbing and about to make a resurgence well into the 90s. Another great thing about the 80s was the TV shows. I have to admit to my fair share, such as Dallas and that sort. Finally, yes, we have some of the greatest albums of all time including Michael Jackson's Thriller which went on to become the greatest selling album of all time.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
Philippa Gregory: The Top 5 Works
Philippa Gregory will always have a special place in my heart as being my favourite author of all time. The woman is an incredible writer of voice and personality. Her books are a timeless example of what happens when history meets fiction and when that meets great writing. Her first person accounts in which her books are normally written are brilliant evocative of the time, place, speed, history, relations and much more of what she is trying to convey.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
Bret Easton Ellis: The Top 5 Works
When you think about Bret Easton Ellis, you're most likely to think of the man who created the feared antagonist Patrick Bateman, or the man who created the tragic Julian, or even the man who most recently wrote on racial divides and how he feels about identity politics in the modern world (somewhat controversial, but understood all the same).
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
Carson McCullers: The Top 5 Works
Carson McCullers is one of my personal favourite writers of the modern age. Whatever she writes, she writes with beauty and passion, and every single word seems as if it has been specially chosen for its position in a sentence and every sentence for its position in the text. Though Carson McCullers didn't live very long, I do think that her body of work (though short) is pretty impressive. I always identify with her lonely and struggling characters who hold it all inside as they walk, discontented through meaningless lives, seeking something other than what they have. The eternal displacement.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
