Category: classics
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Book Review: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Immersive, personal, and adventuresome, Jon Krakauer brings his readers to Mount Everest to recount his disastrous trek up the infamous mountain in 1996…
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Book Review: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Given how much WWII fiction I read, I’m surprised how long I procrastinated this one. Until joining a buddy read, I wasn’t aware of the more problematic themes, so I went into this with some skepticism…
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Book Review: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
For some reason, I never wrote a review for this book when I first read it in 2016… not uncommon at this point in my life but I’ve been regarding it as one of my all-time favorite books since then. Nothing has changed the second time around…
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Book Review: The Glass-Blowers by Daphne Du Maurier
This was a much different speed than the other books I’ve read by Daphne Du Maurier. While interesting, I found it painfully slow…
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Book Review: Tales from the Secret Annex by Anne Frank
It was wonderful revisiting Anne Frank’s writing. I’ve been meaning to read this since I read her diary in 2020…
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Book Review: Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
This was an interesting read given it was originally published in 1835. It offers an impartial point of view of life and politics in America at that time…
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Book Review: The Call of the Wild by Jack London
I went into this blindly. I thought I knew what the plot was about but I was way off. Had I known, I don’t think I would have picked it up…
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Book Review: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
At first, I found the book painfully slow (and admittedly uninteresting). Though I can’t say it exactly picked up the pace, I got more invested…
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Book Review: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
This is a book I’ve been meaning to read since high school. I think at one point I actually did start it but didn’t get through the first chapter…
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Book Review: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
I started reading this back in 2017 and I’ve only now picked it up again…