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 →
“North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell
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 →
“Sunset Song” by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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 →