November 24, 2021 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot 10) – Agatha Christie When I started with this read, I had some difficulty in connecting with it; something I have not experienced with my previous reads of…
November 24, 2021 Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot #19) – Agatha Christie I very much enjoyed this particular installment of the Poirot series. The story was for me one of the good ones in the series….
November 24, 2021 The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #13) – Agatha Christie In The ABC Murders, Poirot is challenged by a serial killer, or it seems to be the case. The murderer is so bold that…
November 23, 2021 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – Agatha Christie This is my second time reading of a standalone murder-mystery by Agatha Christie, and I find it to be quite a different experience. I’ve…
November 23, 2021 The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa In the wake of Risorgimento (Italian Unification), the aristocratic nobility was threatened with the possible decline of their feudal power. They had to contemplate…
November 23, 2021 Bleak House – Charles Dickens What attracted me to Bleak House was the Chancery Court suit of Jarndyce V Jarndyce. Having always had an interest in stories with legal…
November 23, 2021 Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time #1) Marcel Proust Swann’s Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the rare books that come your way. After…
November 23, 2021 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins This is one of the greatest books I have read in my life. The book is my first Wilkie Collins and I’m really glad…
November 23, 2021 Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë I first read this book back in school for the English class and remember disliking it very much. The characters were too black and…
November 23, 2021 Lorna Doone – R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone, a Romance in Exmoor is a beautiful romance and adventure story set in the South West of England during the Monmouth Rebellion….