October 18, 2025 Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges is a genius. He weaves fantastic mazes in his short stories and throws the readers into them. The readers, in return,…
August 28, 2025 The Complete Poems of John Keats I came across John Keats for the very first time in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. In the book, Virginia talks of…
June 24, 2025 Persuasion – Jane Austen Persuasion is a mature work by Jane Austen. It’s also called her best work. After many rereadings, I quite agree. Persuasion is quite different…
June 16, 2025 The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz I’m not a fan of contemporary pastiches of old classics. I’ve had enough experience of reading silly and hideous stories based on my beloved…
June 7, 2025 Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen Northanger Abbey is a charming story that revolves around a young, innocent, and naive “heroine” (to use Austen’s words), Catherine Morland. True to Austen’s…
May 31, 2025 The Black Tulip – Alexander Dumas The Black Tulip is a brilliant work by Alexander Dumas. I truly don’t understand why this is a lesser-known work of his. In my…
May 25, 2025 Emma – Jane Austen The second reading of Emma pleasantly surprised me. After the initial embarrassment of having underappreciated this amazing work of Austen, I managed to wallow…
May 17, 2025 The Ladies’ Paradise – Émile Zola The Ladies’ Paradise, the 11th novel of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, is a story of the coming of the modern age and the rise…
May 17, 2025 Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Mansfield Park is a different work from the rest of Jane Austen’s novels. I can say that now I’ve read them all. Jane Austen’s…
May 8, 2025 Hamlet – William Shakespeare Hamlet is the best psychological play of Shakespeare. Most of his tragedies penetrate into the characters’ psychologies, but no one comes close to Hamlet…