Category: Book Reviews

When I came across The Blue Castle a few years ago, I thought it was merely a young adult romance. I don’t read romance…

I fell in love with The Phantom of the Opera after watching the 2004 movie adaptation. Since then I have wanted to read the…

Hard Times is my return to Charles Dickens as an adult. I have read Oliver Twist and David Copperfield as a child. I didn’t…

Resurrection is one man’s story of atonement for a sin committed in his youth. Partly based on a true story and partly autobiographical, the…

The Sun Also Rises is the story of a “lost generation”, a group of British and American ex-pats who were ex-servicemen of World War…

I found Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground to be quite a different work from his other works. Dostoevsky’s writing style adopted in this novella and…

I’m really at a loss as to how I should review this book. I’m burdened with mixed feelings, both positive and negative. They are…

Dead Souls is a work of pure satire. There is no section of Russian society that this work doesn’t touch. It scorns the Russian…