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) – Anthony Trollope This is by far the best Trollope novel that I’ve read. His writing is clever, satirical, and almost hilarious, so it 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 fell short of my expectations. 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…
November 25, 2021 A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance #1) – John Grisham Reading Sycamore Row took me down the memory lane to its prequel, A Time to Kill. And I realized that I haven’t written a…
November 25, 2021 The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery 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…
November 25, 2021 The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux I fell in love with The Phantom of the Opera after watching the 2004 movie adaptation. Since then I have wanted to read the…
November 25, 2021 Hard Times – Charles Dickens 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…
November 25, 2021 The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince is a political treatise written by a Florentine diplomat, Niccolo Machiavelli. In a time of foreign invasion and rule of the different…
November 25, 2021 Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy 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…