June 24, 2025 Persuasion – Jane Austen Persuasion is a mature work by Jane Austen. It’s also called her best work. After many rereadings, I quite agree. Persuasion is quite different…
June 16, 2025 The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz I’m not a fan of contemporary pastiches of old classics. I’ve had enough experience of reading silly and hideous stories based on my beloved…
June 7, 2025 Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen Northanger Abbey is a charming story that revolves around a young, innocent, and naive “heroine” (to use Austen’s words), Catherine Morland. True to Austen’s…
May 31, 2025 The Black Tulip – Alexander Dumas The Black Tulip is a brilliant work by Alexander Dumas. I truly don’t understand why this is a lesser-known work of his. In my…
May 25, 2025 Emma – Jane Austen The second reading of Emma pleasantly surprised me. After the initial embarrassment of having underappreciated this amazing work of Austen, I managed to wallow…
May 17, 2025 The Ladies’ Paradise – Émile Zola The Ladies’ Paradise, the 11th novel of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, is a story of the coming of the modern age and the rise…
May 17, 2025 Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Mansfield Park is a different work from the rest of Jane Austen’s novels. I can say that now I’ve read them all. Jane Austen’s…
May 8, 2025 Hamlet – William Shakespeare Hamlet is the best psychological play of Shakespeare. Most of his tragedies penetrate into the characters’ psychologies, but no one comes close to Hamlet…
April 22, 2025 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of the most widely read classical romances. It is also no exaggeration to say that Pride and…
April 22, 2025 The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game is a phenomenal work. Its complex plot makes the full meaning of the novel unfathomable, but there is a certain…