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July 17, 2022

No Exit – Jean-Paul Satre

“You remember all we were told about the torture chambers, the fire, and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for…

July 17, 2022

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a collection of short stories that states a brutally true account of horror and survival…

July 2, 2022

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, as the subtitle implies, tells the story of the decline of one influential German family from its height….

July 2, 2022

The Wind in the Willows is widely accepted as a children’s novel. To some extent, this classification is justified since its story consists of…

July 2, 2022

Oliver Twist is the darkest and most depressing novel by Dickens that I have read by far. It brings you some of the wickedest…

June 15, 2022

This essay is an in-depth discussion of Camus’s view on absurdism and how man continues his existence on the face of it. Is he…

May 20, 2022

The Citadel is a beautiful study of an idealistic young doctor who attempts to swim against the tide of the established medical ethics and…

May 20, 2022

Pastoral is a charming old fashioned love story set in the midst of WWII. I’m not a romance fan now and rarely read the…

April 28, 2022

The Return of the King is the final part of the trilogy where the fellowship marks its victory over the Dark Lord, Sauron. The…

April 28, 2022

Since my read of Kidnapped, I wanted to read its sequel, Catriona. But from my experience, I’m always very cautious when I tread on…