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…
February 10, 2023 Idylls of the King – Alfred Tennyson Idylls of the King is a beautiful retelling of the Arthurian legend. In blank verse, Tennyson tells us the coming of Arthur, the romantic…
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 21, 2022 Paris Spleen – Charles Baudelaire Paris Spleen is a retelling of Les Fleurs du Mal in a more profound and elaborate manner. It’s more powerful with its touch on…
December 15, 2022 Les Fleurs du Mal – Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is an unusual collection of poetry in its bold thematic exposition of taboo subjects and darker…
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…