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🟢 Judging only by this book's title and the particular cover I used for the post, you would think this as a charming slice-of-life nove...

🟢 I am still struggling to catch up with my reviews, but I can't possibly skip submitting one or two for the #1952Club, can I? So here...

If God does not exist, then everything is permitted —this seemed to be the central point of argument Fyodor Dostoyevsky brought up in The...

Once or twice a year you would have stumbled upon a book that leaves your soul troubled. This year Tender is the Night was it for me. Th...

Now 15 years old, Nana Coupeau, Gervaise and Coupeau’s daughter, first appeared in L’Assommoir as a child. Brought up on the street, Nan...

If you think I am going to review a thriller/mystery book, you are mistaken! The Kill is a novel by Émile Zola; the second in his Les Rou...

Although it is a very short book, Notes From Underground is far from light reading. I have started it last year, but had to stop at firs...

When first reading this book’s title, I thought this Truman Capote’s non-fiction story would cover about cold blooded murderer(s). In a w...

In all human beings there is always the beast within. That’s what Zola wanted to remind us in La Bête Humaine (= the human beast). There...

“ Should we devote our time and energy to leaving a mark in some way (a painting, a sculpture, an opera, a fortune), or should we indeed...

[Conclusion in English is at the bottom of this post] Ketika sedang berjalan-jalan di malam yang suram di London, seorang pengacara ...

Kalau ada satu hal yang paling rumit di dunia dan tak pernah bisa dipahami, pasti itu adalah manusia. Pepatah mengatakan, dalamnya laut dap...