After how much I enjoyed and loved Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, I thought I had found my favorite Victorian novel of all time. But after reading North and South, I’m not so sure anymore. Gaskell is …
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being is one of those books you hear about all the time and widely praised as “one of the most beautiful books of all time”. That’s about all I knew about this book when I decided …
Wow, what a read. Having read The Goldfinch (and not really enjoying it too much). I definitely went into this book expecting to read a quite boring and pseudo-intellectual snobbish book. I did not expect to be glued to the …
This is one of my favorite books that I read in 2022. And The Wind Sees All is technically a novel, but is written in such a way that likens it closer to a short story collection. It’s an interesting …
I’m surprised that this book isn’t more famous because according to the afterword, Stefan Zweig was the most famous writer in the world (!!) during the 1930s. Reading this made me a bit thoughtful.. Which of the writers that are …
Death and the Penguin, written by Andrey Kurkov, is a quirky and darkly comedic novel that takes the reader on a journey through the post-Soviet world of Ukraine. The protagonist, Viktor, is a struggling writer who takes on a job …
Before 1984, there was We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written in 1921, this is the OG Dystopian novel, the one that started it all and inspired the likes of 1984, Brave New World, and even The Hunger Games series. Like a …
In the past few years that I’ve gotten back into reading I’ve been keeping up with book releases and getting recommendations on books through what is often dubbed BookTube. One of the terms I hear most often on BookTube is …
…Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die – anything to stop remembering. How could he have taken that moment of drunken folly for the deepest truth of his life? Why had he finally given in after
Despite my love of classic novels, I have barely read any English novels from the Victorian era so I have decided to remedy this by reading one or two Victorian novels a year (hopefully this post will be the first …