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…