“Poor little monkey!” (…) the words were an epitaph for the tomb of Maisie’s childhood. She was abandoned to her fate. What was clear to any spectator was that the only link binding her to either parent was this lamentable fact of her being a ready vessel of bitterness, a deep little porcelain cup in which biting acids could be mixed. They had wanted her … Continue reading Henry James’s “What Maisie Knew” – book review
Here’s my list for 2019 Continue reading Back to the Classics Challenge 2019
It reminds uncomfortably of the current intellectual climate Continue reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 – book review
This book is incredible. I read it in Polish translation and it made me double- up on my efforts of improving my French. Continue reading Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” – book review
Attempting to review Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is somewhat absurd. After all, as a political pamphlet, it set itself one task above all: to persuade its readers and that aim it has unquestionably achieved. You cannot possibly read an account of the American Revolution which does not mention Thomas Paine. America’s independence seems now to be unquestionably common-sense. Yet it was fascinating to read Paine in … Continue reading Thomas Paine “Common Sense” – book review
This was my first Agatha Christie novel! Continue reading Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”- book review
I don’t have to read them all… but the more the merrier 🙂 Continue reading Back to the Classics Challenge 2018
A list of 50 + classics that I intend to read in the next 5 years Continue reading The Classics Club Reading List
I loved this book so much!!! I don’t know how I had not heard this book mentioned before – it is simply exquisite. A Moveable Feast is Hemingway’s memoir of the time he spent in the Paris in the 1920s. Hemingway had just given his job as a journalist to pursue a career in writing fiction. He was young, recently married and ambitious. This memoir … Continue reading Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” – a book review
A fascinatinating discussion about Greece – ancient and modern. I snuck in with Mary Beard’s book to ask for an autograph… Save Continue reading Wordless Wednesday-an evening in a bookshop
