July 2, 2022 Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows is widely accepted as a children’s novel. To some extent, this classification is justified since its story consists of…
July 2, 2022 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens Oliver Twist is the darkest and most depressing novel by Dickens that I have read by far. It brings you some of the wickedest…
June 15, 2022 The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus This essay is an in-depth discussion of Camus’s view on absurdism and how man continues his existence on the face of it. Is he…
May 20, 2022 The Citadel – A. J. Cronin The Citadel is a beautiful study of an idealistic young doctor who attempts to swim against the tide of the established medical ethics and…
May 20, 2022 Pastoral – Nevil Shute Pastoral is a charming old fashioned love story set in the midst of WWII. I’m not a romance fan now and rarely read the…
April 28, 2022 The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien The Return of the King is the final part of the trilogy where the fellowship marks its victory over the Dark Lord, Sauron. The…
April 28, 2022 Catriona – Robert Louis Stevenson Since my read of Kidnapped, I wanted to read its sequel, Catriona. But from my experience, I’m always very cautious when I tread on…
April 18, 2022 The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for…
March 11, 2022 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary is a tragedy. It tells the story of Emma Bovary who lived a tumultuous life between real and imagined, and whose end…
February 15, 2022 The Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR #1) – J.R.R. Tolkien “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” Synopsis…