Happy New Year! After tracking my progress via Goodreads , today, for the fifth year in a row, I’m sharing a retrospect on the books I read ...

I’ve previously reviewed Gustave Flaubert’s 1869 novel, A Sentimental Education , for this blog, but this month I’m back with a post about a...

Moving, surprising and well researched, Enid Shomer’s 2012 The Twelve Rooms of the Nile was my favourite of the books I’ve revi...

André Gide I’m cheating a little bit here, as The Immoralist takes us two years into the twentieth century and is by a writer who...

Gustave Flaubert A Sentimental Education is the story of Frederic Moreau –a young man from the provinces who arrives in Paris, wit...