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November 19, 2021

The Plague – Albert Camus

The story of The Plague is about a plague that wraps the city of Oran, isolating the city completely from the outside world. Cut…

November 19, 2021

Middlemarch – George Eliot

This is such a beautiful book and the first George Eliot work that I enjoyed. I’ve read her before, and although I appreciated their…

November 19, 2021

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

This is my second reading of Jane Eyre, having read it before when I was a teenager. At the time I understood this book…

November 17, 2021

Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio

Decameron is a collection of hundred stories told in ten days by seven young women and three young men who have stationed themselves in…

November 17, 2021

Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race #4) – Agatha Christie

This is one of the most enjoyable murder mysteries by our queen of crimes. It is well written. From the very first chapter, the…

November 17, 2021

The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #37)- Agatha Christie

The Clocks is a very interesting and clever story. It is a story that could only come from the pen of an ingenious writer….

November 17, 2021

The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3) – Agatha Christie

When I read the first book of the Marple series, two years ago, I wasn’t much impressed. It was, of course, entertaining, as any…

November 17, 2021

The Hound of the Baskerville – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I first read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was about ten years old. It was both a fascinating and scary read for…

November 16, 2021

Complete Sonnets – William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is universally acclaimed for his plays. His use of satire, wit, clever plots, and darker and tragic elements have attracted the readers. And…

November 16, 2021

The Complete Poems of John Keats

I came across John Keats for the very first time in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. In the book Virginia talks of…

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