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…
December 9, 2022 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is my most favourite Christmas story. Scrooge has been an interesting character for me not only because I liked him (not…
November 20, 2022 The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, which earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize and later paved the way for the Nobel literature Prize, is a sympathetic story…
October 30, 2022 Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky “Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We’ve lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds…
October 15, 2022 The Antiquary – Sir Walter Scott The Antiquary is the most humorous historical fiction in the Waverley series that I’ve read so far. Sir Walter Scott pens a satirical story…
September 20, 2022 The Door – Magda Szabo The Door is a singular story of an unusual relationship between a female author and her housekeeper. Emerence, the housekeeper, is quite a character,…
September 3, 2022 Bloomsbury Girls – Natalie Jenner Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner is a sequel to her debut The Jane Austen Society. Like in her debut novel, Jenner has chosen a…
August 15, 2022 The Words – Jean Paul Sartre The Words is one of the most interesting autobiographies I’ve read. Although it mainly covers the first ten years of the life of Jean-Paul…