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 […]

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 […]

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 […]