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Category: Fiction

April 1, 2023

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

This was a nightmare of a read. I’ve been postponing this read for ever so long, and now I feel perhaps I should have…

March 24, 2023

Within a Budding Grove/In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time #2) – Marcel Proust

Within a Budding Grove or In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second part of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost…

January 10, 2023

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

“…wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass…

January 1, 2023

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities is quite a strange book. It chronicles the dialogue between Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, and Marco Polo, a Venetian traveler, wherein…

January 1, 2023

Doctor Thorne – Anthony Trollope

Considered his best work by Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne is a sensitive story, exposing Victorian tyranny and hypocrisy on high birth and social class….

December 24, 2022

The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

This is my first exposure to Graham Greene. Two of his books have been in my personal collection for about a year now, somehow…

December 9, 2022

Man and Wife – Wilkie Collins

Intriguing, suspenseful, and exciting, Man and Wife is another excellent work by Wilkie Collins. Though commonly associated with sensation fiction, most of his works…

December 9, 2022

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol is my most favourite Christmas story. Scrooge has been an interesting character for me not only because I liked him (not…

November 20, 2022

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath, which earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize and later paved the way for the Nobel literature Prize, is a sympathetic story…

October 30, 2022

Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We’ve lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds…

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