What's in the books category?

The Picture of Dorian Gray 2011/2

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Lord Henry Wooten has so many epigrams that one could quote almost the whole book. I would say that this book is worth reading simply from this standpoint let alone the story which is itself gripping from beginning to end. This has been on my list of books that I would read someday and I’m [...]

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2011/1

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

The thing that confounded me most were the various currencies – florins, friedrichs d’or, louis d’or, thalers and gulden. Roubles and Francs of course were familiar to me.

Introducing the new Books category

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

One of my goals of 2011 is to spend more time reading. I don’t mean flicking through magazines and newspapers or the cursory browse but being properly engrossed in good literature. I have finally managed to quit Evony (it’s been two weeks without playing and I haven’t thought about it much during that time) and [...]