Fanda Classiclit

As usual when the last three months in the year is coming, hectic is all around me. I still can catch up with my reading pace, but not wi...

It’s official! Willa Cather will join the short list of Fanda’s favorite female writers. Other than Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, and Ed...

I have thought that Siddharta was about THE Siddharta Gautama—the Buddha—and that this book is all about Buddhist thing. But after finish...

This is the first time I read detective novel with Victorian background. Here I can hear you yelling: ‘What about Holmes?’ Well, Holmes i...

Thanks to Robert Fagles, I could at last really enjoy Homer’s The Iliad ! (this is a very-very late post—I finished the book on May, but ...

Chapter five – Gatsby’s offer to “pay” Nick for his favor made me think that apart from his choice of getting rich, Jay Gatsby is quite ...

Chapter four and five are awesome! Chapter five, especially, as this is where Gatsby-Daisy reunion took place. They are short, but hey!.....