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Month: November 2021

November 25, 2021

Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8) – P.D. James

This eighth book of the Dalgliesh series takes us to a village in the headland of Norfolk where a nuclear power station is shadowing…

November 25, 2021

The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12) – P.D. James

The Murder Room is all that a murder-mystery should be. Intriguing and clever mystery plot, an exciting story, an interesting set of characters, including…

November 25, 2021

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

My understanding of Gulliver’s Travels was that it is a children/young adult adventure story. I really don’t know how I formed this opinion, but…

November 25, 2021

The Overcoat – Nikolai Gogol

The Overcoat tells the story of the life and death of one Akaky Akakievich, a government official in a certain department. The first part…

November 25, 2021

Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2)

This is by far the best Trollope novel that I’ve read. His writing is clever, satirical, and almost hilarious that I felt as if…

November 25, 2021

The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire #1) – Anthony Trollope

I’ll be frank and admit that The Warden by Anthony Trollope kind of disappointed my expectation. I’ve heard many good things about this first…

November 25, 2021

Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance #2) – John Grisham

In Sycamore Row, I meet Jake Brigance, my favourite Gisham character, again. I find him three years later from his famous Hailey trial, still…

November 25, 2021

A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance #1) – John Grisham

Reading Sycamore Row took me down the memory lane to its prequel, A Time to Kill. And I realized that I haven’t written a…

November 25, 2021

The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery

When I came across The Blue Castle a few years ago, I thought it was merely a young adult romance. I don’t read romance…

November 25, 2021

The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux

I fell in love with The Phantom of the Opera after watching the 2004 movie adaptation. Since then I have wanted to read the…

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