Category: Book Reviews
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The street where the author Mircea lived, in Stefan cel Mare, of Bucharest, did not have apartment blocks, until a developer built them. Mircea used to dream of climbing mountains, way up to the peaks. After tall buildings were constructed, reality blocked his view of the distant scenery and landscape. He stopped dreaming of scaling…
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Margaret Atwood, in “Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces”, recommends Marilyn French’s three volume trilogy titled “From Eve to Dawn”. Although it is in four volumes and totaling around 800 pages, don’t let this intimidate you. Six hundred pages is like the basic volume of the average tome like Book Of Lives: A Memoir Of…
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Summary & Book Review of Georges Simenon’s The Cat Marguerite Doise, a widow, married Emile Bouin, a widower, because she pitied him. It seemed the spouses loved their pets more than they did each other. He hated her parrot while she hated his cat. Marguerite Bouin has a small appetite. Emile Bouin has a hearty…
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Margaret Atwood’s school mate had her pet cat which gave birth to a litter of kittens and she gave Margaret a kitten. (Atwood, p. 72) What did Atwood name her kitten? She called it Perky, short for Percolator. What happened to Perky? Before Atwood’s younger sister Ruth was born, her parents got rid of Perky.…
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Friday, April 17, 2026 highlights letter O My theme is book reviews and miscellaneous. I have read some authors whose surnames/ first names start from letters A to Z. Sometimes, I may post on poems whose topic starts with the required alphabet, if I lack my preparation in reading an author whose name is required…
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Sense and Sensibility Chapter 3 Mrs Fanny’s Dashwood’s brother is Edward Ferrars and he’s the eldest son of the siblings. He is visiting Norland. Elinor tells her mother that Edward is unlike his sister Fanny. In fact, Elinor fancies him. He is homely and unpretentious, unlike his younger brother. Mrs Henry Dashwood then pays particular…
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Margaret Atwood read Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition and you should too. This is what Frozen in Time is about. It is the story of Sir John Franklin, who sailed in 1845, to serach for the legendary Northwest Passage over land, to walk to the Orient, in the East. The crew…