May 25, 2023 The Red and the Black – Stendhal Stendhal wrote The Red and the Black with a twofold intention. The first is to present a psychological portrayal of an ambitious provincial young…
May 12, 2023 Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston This book turned out to be quite different from what I expected. From the synopsis, I gathered the novel to be a coloured woman’s…
May 5, 2023 Germinal – Emile Zola Germinal is one of the most moving novels written about the sufferings of the working class. Zola’s undisguised sympathy for them flows abundantly throughout…
April 1, 2023 Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke This is the best work I’ve read after Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, which I found profoundly informative to amateur writers like…
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….