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…
April 19, 2025 Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare This is yet another interesting Shakespearean comedy. The play has one saucy and sharp tongued woman in the character of Beatrice. I’m quite new…
April 11, 2025 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen This debut publication of Jane Austen is, in my opinion, a complete book in itself, an excellent introduction to the world of Jane Austen….
March 31, 2025 The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2) – Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four is another interesting Sherlock Holmes novel. In his second act of presenting our beloved detective, Conan Doyle fares better. Structure-wise,…
March 31, 2025 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit is the forerunner to the The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It gives the first glimpse to the world of hobbits, dwarfs,…
March 31, 2025 Fire in the Thatch (Robert McDonald #27) – E.C.R. Lorac When a blaze destroys Little Thatch and its tenant, Nicholas Vaughn, perishes in the blaze, it is ruled that the cause of death is…
March 31, 2025 Fell Murder (Robert McDonald #24) – E.C.R. Lorac Fell Murder is a grim murder-mystery story penned by Lorac. I say “grim” only relating to the murder-mystery. The story isn’t grim, far from…