Dec 21, 2024
Reflections by fellow Gooodreads author, Joe Krakovsky, was a delightful, entertaining read from start to finish. From the get go the story had me hooked, with its exquisite historical detail and compelling plot. An adventure involving Egyptian mummies, a young...
May 23, 2024
This was my first time reading Émile Zola, and boy was it a treat! His writing in Thérèse Raquin is absolutely sublime and compelling, so much so that I could hardly put this book down. The intricate development of each of the characters, from Laurent and Thérèse to...
Jun 7, 2023
“The capitalists had first encouraged West Indian slavery and then helped to destroy it. When British capitalism depended on the West Indies, they ignored slavery or defended it. When British capitalism found the West Indian monopoly a nuisance, they destroyed West...
Dec 27, 2021
“I have believed that life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death” – Dr. Josef Breuer I have mixed feelings about When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom. On the one hand I found the central concept of...
Dec 15, 2020
Notes from Underground was my first taste of Dostoyevsky’s work. Dostoyevsky came highly recommended to me by a good friend, as one of the most critically acclaimed Russian writers of the 19th century not named Leo Tolstoy. I enjoyed Notes from Underground...
