Babbling Books

Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is a very famous French novel. I thought that this book was an excellent literary work that dug in to all...

J eremy Black’s George III is a somewhat unusual look at the English monarch. This biography has a fairly unconventional structure and style...

Stephen King’s T he Shining was a reread for me. I first read this a very long time ago, probably in the late 1980s. I decided to read this...

Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is the story of Esther Greenwood. The novel looks into Esther’s life both before and after she experiences symp...

The War of the End of the World is the first book that I have read by Mario Vargas Llosa. This is a massive and sprawling novel that chroni...

A  Brother’s Price  by Wen Spencer is one of several novels that I have read over the past few years that center around fictional matriarch...

Under Western Eyes is Joseph Conrad’s Russian novel. I found this to be another brilliant Conrad effort. As is typical of Conrad, this...