July 29, 2021 Les Misérables – Victor Hugo This is one of the most beautiful and best books that is ever written about human suffering; a true masterpiece. It is no exaggeration…
July 29, 2021 A Room with a View – E.M. Forster A Room with a View is a story of love, a story of self-realization of a young woman, and a story of the Edwardian…
July 27, 2021 Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend is the last complete work by Dickens, and is much criticized as being “less Dickensian”. There is probably some truth in…
July 27, 2021 The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco I was attracted to The Name of the Rose some years ago when I learned that its story is centered on a medieval mystery…
July 27, 2021 The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita is undoubtedly the most unusual book I have read. The book is written in two parts: The first part opens…
July 27, 2021 The Waves – Virginia Woolf What Virginia Woolf does to me by her books no author living or dead has been able to do. She with her poetry and…
July 24, 2021 A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles “If a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them”. How true this is? Doesn’t every one…
July 24, 2021 Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf In this second reading, I realized that although I have liked the book after my first reading, I hardly have understood it. In Mrs….
July 24, 2021 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment is one of the most heartfelt stories that I have read. Never a book is written about agonies of a human…
July 24, 2021 North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell North and South was my first Gaskell read. I read it after watching the BBC TV series and perhaps due to the influence of…