November 26, 2021 The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy The story of The Death of Ivan Ilych profoundly touches on the concepts of life and death. Although I have come across books that…
November 26, 2021 The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent is by far the most complex classic I read for this year. It is a classic which is conceptually modern. Built…
November 25, 2021 Kidnapped (David Balfour #1) – Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped is a young adult adventure story. The protagonist, the young David Balfour, having become an orphan, takes on a journey to find his…
November 25, 2021 Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8) – P.D. James This eighth book of the Dalgliesh series takes us to a village in the headland of Norfolk where a nuclear power station is shadowing…
November 25, 2021 The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12) – P.D. James The Murder Room is all that a murder-mystery should be. Intriguing and clever mystery plot, an exciting story, an interesting set of characters, including…
November 25, 2021 Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift My understanding of Gulliver’s Travels was that it is a children/young adult adventure story. I really don’t know how I formed this opinion, but…
November 25, 2021 The Overcoat – Nikolai Gogol The Overcoat tells the story of the life and death of one Akaky Akakievich, a government official in a certain department. The first part…
November 25, 2021 Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2) This is by far the best Trollope novel that I’ve read. His writing is clever, satirical, and almost hilarious that I felt as if…
November 25, 2021 The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire #1) – Anthony Trollope I’ll be frank and admit that The Warden by Anthony Trollope kind of disappointed my expectation. I’ve heard many good things about this first…
November 25, 2021 Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance #2) – John Grisham In Sycamore Row, I meet Jake Brigance, my favourite Gisham character, again. I find him three years later from his famous Hailey trial, still…