November 25, 2021 Hard Times – Charles Dickens Hard Times is my return to Charles Dickens as an adult. I have read Oliver Twist and David Copperfield as a child. I didn’t…
November 25, 2021 The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince is a political treatise written by a Florentine diplomat, Niccolo Machiavelli. In a time of foreign invasion and rule of the different…
November 25, 2021 Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy Resurrection is one man’s story of atonement for a sin committed in his youth. Partly based on a true story and partly autobiographical, the…
November 25, 2021 The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises is the story of a “lost generation”, a group of British and American ex-pats who were ex-servicemen of World War…
November 25, 2021 Notes From Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky I found Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground to be quite a different work from his other works. Dostoevsky’s writing style adopted in this novella and…
November 25, 2021 The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas I’m really at a loss as to how I should review this book. I’m burdened with mixed feelings, both positive and negative. They are…
November 24, 2021 Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls is a work of pure satire. There is no section of Russian society that this work doesn’t touch. It scorns the Russian…
November 24, 2021 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot 10) – Agatha Christie When I started with this read, I had some difficulty in connecting with it; something I have not experienced with my previous reads of…
November 24, 2021 Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot #19) – Agatha Christie I very much enjoyed this particular installment of the Poirot series. The story was for me one of the good ones in the series….
November 24, 2021 The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #13) – Agatha Christie In The ABC Murders, Poirot is challenged by a serial killer, or it seems to be the case. The murderer is so bold that…