Magnificent Octopus

It's a meme and it goes like this: "Here's something that should be fun — and do get involved in the comment section! — I'...

I feel like I've been holed away for weeks rather than mere days, although maybe it really has been much longer in terms of my headspace...

— No-one's trying to kill him at all. He's just paranoid, isn't he? Nora says irritably. He's just a red herring. And the ol...

More quotable bits from of The Doll , by Bolesław Prus, which I'm now done with and which I thoroughly enjoyed. P 208: Izabella loved...

I finished reading Dirty Snow this weekend, and for a couple hours I walked around in a daze, like I'd been punched in the gut. Can...

Part 2 of Madame Bovary elicited the following reactions. The subtitle of Madame Bovary is "Provincial Ways," and after this w...