A Room Of One's Own
Virginia Woolf is pretty cool, and a great writer. This is a good book
Europe
Perdido Street Station
Gross - like if Terry Pratchett was a Vogon.
The Three Muskateers
I can’t really decide whether Dumas is great without being good, or instead good without being great - I suppose it depends on the point of view. He is unquestionably amazing, astonishing, a grandfather of Adventure as a genre. Sure...
My Name Is Red
You walk into the room with your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked and you say, “Who is that man?” You try so hard but you don’t understand Just what you will say when you get home Because...
Middlemarch
Florid prose and a large cast of well-rounded characters with an interplay of politics, politicking, ethics and romance that just doesn’t quite hit the spot for me, in the end. I mean I enjoyed it, it is by any account...
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
Upon the completion of And Then There Were None, I was a mere 20 minutes into my walk and eager for more, so I fired up the old Libby app, tried to borrow this book, failed, fired up Hoopla, borrowed...
And Then There Were None
Reading Christie I am frequently struck with the thought: why isn’t Christie more popular? And then I remember that she is the best selling novelist of all time - Wikipedia currently has her tied with the bard, but he was...
The Brothers Karamazov
I got into, started studying and eventually made a career out of computer programming because first I wanted to make clouds. The wispy vortices, plastic and mutable at a timescale just longer than that which is immediately perceptible, seemed the...
A Passage to India
A Passage to India is a moral story of a friendship, and I want to be able to say that the moral story that it tells is of course completely obvious these days and is in fact full of its...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Excellently written compassionate treatment, love the murder, its funny* how some mores seem so foreign and unimaginable and some mores seem to persist so strongly. I think what I found most brilliant was the different moral perspectives that Hardy sets...