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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…

November 23, 2021

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – Agatha Christie

This is my second time reading of a standalone murder-mystery by Agatha Christie, and I find it to be quite a different experience. I’ve…

November 23, 2021

The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

In the wake of Risorgimento (Italian Unification), the aristocratic nobility was threatened with the possible decline of their feudal power. They had to contemplate…

November 23, 2021

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

What attracted me to Bleak House was the Chancery Court suit of Jarndyce V Jarndyce. Having always had an interest in stories with legal…

November 23, 2021

Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time #1) Marcel Proust

Swann’s Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the rare books that come your way. After…

November 23, 2021

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

This is one of the greatest books I have read in my life. The book is my first Wilkie Collins and I’m really glad…

November 23, 2021

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

I first read this book back in school for the English class and remember disliking it very much. The characters were too black and…

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