November 17, 2021 The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #37)- Agatha Christie The Clocks is a very interesting and clever story. It is a story that could only come from the pen of an ingenious writer….
November 17, 2021 The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3) – Agatha Christie When I read the first book of the Marple series, two years ago, I wasn’t much impressed. It was, of course, entertaining, as any…
November 17, 2021 The Hound of the Baskerville – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I first read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was about ten years old. It was both a fascinating and scary read for…
November 16, 2021 Complete Sonnets – William Shakespeare Shakespeare is universally acclaimed for his plays. His use of satire, wit, clever plots, and darker and tragic elements have attracted the readers. And…
November 16, 2021 The Complete Poems of John Keats I came across John Keats for the very first time in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. In the book Virginia talks of…
November 15, 2021 The Longest Journey – E.M. Forster The Longest Journey is, surprisingly, an unusual novel written by E.M. Forster. It is neither plot-driven, since the story is a product of some…
November 15, 2021 Tribute to John Steinbeck’s “The Moon is Down” – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema A Tribute to John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down: The moon is downThe darkness descendsEmbracing in slow degreesThe earth and men. The creeping blackness…
November 7, 2021 A Russian Journal – John Steinbeck “We found as we expected that Russian people are people. And as with other people, they are very nice. The ones we met had…
November 5, 2021 White Nights – Fyodor Dostoevsky White Nights is an emotional story narrated by an unknown narrator, who is the protagonist. He tells his story of loneliness and unrequited love….
November 5, 2021 Remain of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day is a tale of an aging butler, Mr. Stevens, who embarks on a motoring tour at the insistence of…