The Journal

Book Review - The Sorrows of Young Werther

The flame that lights him is the same one that burns him

Book Review - She and Her Cat

No one talks her into opening the door - the cat does

Book Review - The City and Its Uncertain Walls

He went looking for a lost love, and walked out finally free of her

Book Review - The Old Man and the Sea

One old man against one great fish, and the hardest battles are the ones nobody sees

A Miata of My Own

Surrounded by supercars, I came home and bought the humblest roadster on the road

Book Review - The Death of Ivan Ilyich

He lived exactly as he was supposed to, which is the very reason he never truly lived

Book Review - No Longer Human

We all wear the mask in smaller doses, and we never learn what it is hiding

Book Review - The Three-Body Problem trilogy

Two people were handed the survival of the species, and neither answer was the right one

Book Review - Crossroads of Ravens

They call the witchers monsters, but the cruellest ones here are human

Book Review - The Stranger

He lived colourblind to the world, and only at the end saw the colour he had refused

Book Review - Notes from the Underground

He thought his way out of every decent instinct, including the one that could have saved him

Book Review - Marina

A gothic Barcelona, a love that was never going to last, and a book that haunted me twice

Book Review - Kafka on the Shore

Talking cats, fish that rain from the sky, and a world that still felt truer than my own

Book Review - Metro 2035

He came back with proof of a world outside, and nobody down there wanted to hear it

Book Review - The Shadow of the Wind

Some books you choose, and a rare few, in a hidden library in Barcelona, choose you