The Tattered Cloak & Other Novels

Just completed The Tattered Cloak and I will say that I was quite a fan. Inside are six short stories about various Russian characters who are either going from Russia to Paris, or are already there, or are leaving to somewhere else; they all take place between 1920s and the 40s, and no, World War […]

Ben-Hur

This, like the book I am reading now, took way too long to get through. I honestly gave up halfway through and went through an art phase before coming back and reading the second half. By doing that, I did not make myself miserable for reading a book that was heavy in language and description. […]

The Screwtape Letters, Lord Foulgrin’s Letters & The Ishbane Conspiracy

When I was originally on Tumblr, I did these two as separate reviews, so I thought for WordPress I would bring the two together. “The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.” –The Screwtape […]

The Phantom of the Opera

This was a wonderful read, even without knowledge of the movie; I think I would have rather picked the book over it. I love the tragic story of it all, especially if you were to read and relate to what is happening in the world now. At this time it would have been completely politically […]

The Gambler

I literally just finished The Gambler, and there is a satisfaction of growth in literature; I feel like I have been making great progress in comprehension and a tiptoe’s pace of deeper thinking. Plus, Dostoevsky mentions Madame Blanche being dressed “to the nines”, which is a phrase that I would use sometimes. It is so […]

The Mystery of Edwin Drood & Other Stories

I just finished reading Edwin Drood and I feel proud of myself. I think I had mentioned it before, in my review of Poor Folk, of my inexperience with classical literature. The first, and last, time I read Dickens, it was honors English in ninth grade and we had to read A Tale of Two […]

Poor Folk

I am not very familiar with old English literature as a warning, but the hope to be better at it if I am going to continue reading, especially if I dive into Dickens, Tolstoy, etc. I had only ever read The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories before I had read Poor Folk. I […]