Category: classics
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Book Review: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I know this is a classic and hailed as a great literary achievement… but I just wasn’t feeling it…
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Book Review: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
This was a reread for me. I guess I never wrote a review the first time around. My Cousin Rachel is one of my all-time favorite books. It has the same eeriness as Rebecca while being a completely different plot…
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Book Review: Helena by Evelyn Waugh
I hadn’t heard of Evelyn Waugh or any of his books until a couple of them were mentioned during a homily. Helena piqued my interest the most given the subject matter and a line that was quoted. I’ve heard of St. Helena by name but didn’t know much about her story…
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Book Review: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Before reading, I paid minimal attention to what this book was about. I was halfway through before I realized this is in the true crime genre and not a crime novel. I jumped right into it…
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Book Review: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I’m not sure what I can say about this book that hasn’t been said before. It’s a story that has meant so much to so many people for centuries…
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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…