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January 10, 2025

Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time #4) – Marcel Proust

This volume of In Search of Lost Time was a bit disappointing. Up to this fourth volume, I enjoyed Proust’s narrative, the beautiful and…

December 28, 2024

Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf

In all my reviews of Virginia Woolf novels, there is one thing I repeat. It is that she doesn’t write stories to conform to…

December 28, 2024

Absalom, Absalom – William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom is my first novel by William Faulkner. It is also one of the most complex books I have read. However, knowing the…

December 7, 2024

Barnaby Rudge – Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge is the first historical novel Dickens wrote. The other is A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens wrote only two historical novels and…

December 5, 2024

The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig

This memoir of Stefan Zweig is one man’s yearning for a lost yesterday. Zweig lived through two world wars, witnessed how the society gradually…

December 5, 2024

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart is Achebe’s canvas to paint the picture of how the white dominion in Africa disintegrated their culture and customs, slowly reducing…

December 5, 2024

Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

Giovanni’s Room is a beautiful tragedy written by James Baldwin. It tells the story of David, a bisexual American living in France, and how…

February 15, 2024

The Sea, the sea – Iris Murdoch

1978 Booker Prize winner, The Sea, The Sea is my first introduction to the Irish author, Iris Murdoch. To tell the truth, I chose…

January 20, 2024

Death in Venice – Thomas Mann

My literary relationship with Thomas Mann was a strained one. I have read his Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, and while I appreciate his…

January 12, 2024

A Very Easy Death – Simone de Beauvoir

Witnessing the death of a loved one is one of the most difficult situations that one can face. The mental agony of such times…

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