Literary journey of an office career escapee
It is always difficult to share your thoughts about classics. Especially when you’ve struggled with some aspects of the book. At least this is the way it is for me. I don’t think my critical opinion holds any value on a global scale. Legendary books will be read irrespective of my subjective impressions. Still, on... Continue Reading →
This isn’t a story of forbidden love between a girl from Australia and a priest. “The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough is so much more. To be honest, Maggie and Ralph de Bricassart’s love story plotline was the one that fascinated me the least in this book. If anything, it even annoyed me a little. Reading... Continue Reading →
An excellent portrait of a modern woman's woe.Yes, Henry James wrote “The Portrait of a Lady” almost one hundred and fifty years ago. Still, when I was reading it, the thought that Isabel Archer could live in the 21st century and make the same mistakes, absolutely refused to leave me.The novel, regarded by critics as... Continue Reading →
This is not an easy task to write about your favourite books. Especially when a book has been your loyal friend for longer than the majority of your real friends. You get protective of that book, just like you would if you had to protect a person.Like the majority of legendary books, "Pride and Prejudice"... Continue Reading →
I’ve got mixed feelings about this book. First of all, I was reading “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D.H. Lawrence and was wondering, how it has happened so that I hadn’t read it when I was young and very eager to read all foreign classics. Secondly, I felt that the explicit language and scenes are too... Continue Reading →
Is there a perfect place in the world? That is the main question, in my opinion, Elizabeth Gaskell puts in front of the readers in her novel “North and South”. There are so many layers to this book that I won’t even attempt to describe them all in a short review. The book resonated with... Continue Reading →
Despite my true passion for literature and people blaming me teasingly for having too much free time for reading, I haven’t heard about Lewis Grassic Gibbon until only recently. The first novel “Sunset Song” of the trilogy “A Scots Quair” follows the life of Chris Guthrie, a “quean” of the Scottish village, a local farmer’s... Continue Reading →
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