July 27, 2021 The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco I was attracted to The Name of the Rose some years ago when I learned that its story is centered on a medieval mystery…
July 27, 2021 The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita is undoubtedly the most unusual book I have read. The book is written in two parts: The first part opens…
July 27, 2021 The Waves – Virginia Woolf What Virginia Woolf does to me by her books no author living or dead has been able to do. She with her poetry and…
July 24, 2021 A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles “If a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them”. How true this is? Doesn’t every one…
July 24, 2021 Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf In this second reading, I realized that although I have liked the book after my first reading, I hardly have understood it. In Mrs….
July 24, 2021 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment is one of the most heartfelt stories that I have read. Never a book is written about agonies of a human…
July 24, 2021 North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell North and South is my first Gaskell novel. I read it after watching the BBC TV series, and perhaps because of the TV series,…
July 24, 2021 All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, at least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure for…
July 24, 2021 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This opening sentence sums up the main theme of this…
July 24, 2021 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck After long years of avoiding him, I finally managed to sum up my courage and read John Steinbeck. Now one may ask me why…