While I'm on the theme of "Contemporary Classics," I'd like to mention another worthy novel.  When I first read it, I did ...

Happy New Year!  While I was wandering through my favorite bookstore , the owner encouraged me to pick up a copy of  The Elegance of the Hed...

I placed Germinal by Emile Zola on my "To Read" list quite a while ago, inspired by a fellow book blogger.  Yet for whatever reaso...

Walden , by Henry David Thoreau, is one of those well-known texts we learn in school and quote regularly, especially as we long to "liv...

Brilliant, it's just brilliant.  I haven't written on this blog in a while, but I must process what I just read and take a moment to...

In the publication of this novel, F Scott Fitzgerald managed to create a well-written and thoughtful piece of literature without a single re...

One of my earliest blog entries was a list of my favorite Russian authors from the 19th Century, called Great Russian Authors .  I have been...