The Brothers Karamazov

I participated in an online book course earlier in the year that was led by a pastor I follow on social media. Brian Zahnd is a theologian, leads travel groups to the Middle East where you can learn on-site Biblical history, and loves to read. He has an obsession with Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Besides […]

Nick

I wanted to read something shorter and hop off the series train, so I read Nick. Nick is a prelude to The Great Gatsby, exploring the time Nick Carraway spent toward the end of his tour in France during WWI to when he went to New Orleans to escape the monotony of home, leading up […]

Silas Marner

I had read a book, Silas Marner, recently and I want to share that with you. Silas Marner is a man who throughout his life has lived quietly content. He is known for his work with fibers and the village folk appreciate him. When a longtime friend frames Silas for a crime that he himself […]

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea

It has been multiple hot minutes. The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea was a very fairly short book to come to after reading Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, but apparently I was still on a train of reading some dark content. I was able to read through it within a week, […]

The Sorrows of Young Werther

I apologize for being a few days late. This last weekend has been busy in our household- weddings, birthdays, and taking a three day sabbatical from doing keto; but I am back in the saddle, enjoying what is left of vacation before I get back into the retail saddle. I hop from one classic to […]

The Castle

Going off of the classics theme, I thought I would add Franz Kafka to my list of authors read. Over the years, I would come across Kafka and he was someone that was in the back of my mind to read if I was going to start reading much more dense content. Even though I […]

Love in the Time of Cholera

I am finally hopping off of the mystery train and hopping on to the classics train with Love in the Time of Cholera. This was a doozy to read, fighting between being angry at the differing cultural views on love and women, and being caught up in the romanticism because of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s wonderful […]

The Death of Ivan Illych & Other Stories

I had read The Death of Ivan Illyich & Other Stories quite some time ago, so pardon me for the lack of detailed descriptions and personal analysis which would give a review its guts. When I was reading it, I had found it to be difficult, given that it was I believe my first exposure […]

Dracula

I was hoping to have this book done sooner because of Halloween. I found a podcast on Spotify called Pheobe Reads a Mystery, basically an audiobook for mysteries. So I listened to it while reading my own physical copy. I think it took away from the reading experience, but at the same time it sets […]

Mrs. Dalloway

I am a little disappointed in this book. I figured this would be a quick read to introduce me to Virginia Woolf; I had heard a lot of good things about her writing. My take away is filler. Mrs. Dalloway is one day in Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway’s life, a fifty-something woman who lives the snobbish […]