I’ve been reading Dostoyevsky this year and he’s one of my favourite authors. I think I’m turning into a book snob 🤣 because 2023 has been a year of some brilliant reads of literary fiction that when I pick up a current popular read book, I get bored. If a book isn’t making me toss […]
The House of the Dead
I’m back to reading Dostoyevsky. After piss farting around with other novels, I felt compelled to go back to the big ones. I needed another “War and Peace” experience where I had to have a book that I scribbled in, took notes, lived in. I checked my shelves. Brothers Karamazov? Crime and Punishment? I didn’t […]
Book Review of The Gambler by Dostoyevsky
Here’s my book review of Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler. It wasn’t a bad read and my favourite character was the cranky old mother in the wheelchair who whacked people with her cane. Everyone was waiting for her to die to get their hands on her money but she knew exactly what they were doing – so […]
Book Review of The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I’m on a mad reading spree of Dostoyevsky books. I love them although I haven’t read Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov or Demons yet (I’m psyching myself up for them). Here’s the second book I read of his: The Double which also was the book Sylvia Plath did her dissertation on. If you missed my […]
Russian Literature
I’ve been reading this brilliant book by Dostoyevsky and I’m chuckling through it. (If you’re interested, here is my book review on YouTube) We don’t know who the character is but the irony is that if Holden Caulfield (from JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye) had grown up, he would be the character in this […]