University of South Carolina Press, 2000 Text established by Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli Original version of Look Homeward, Angel...

1929 Little, Brown and Company First published Im Westen Nichts Neues, 1928, Ullstein A.G. Due to some serious lack in my schooling or...

Stories from a South African Childhood 2016, Speigel & Grau I just finished reading this book (summer vacation 2019 book 2) one minute...

1971, McGraw-Hill Ryerson I didn’t make notes or turn down any pages in this book. I just read on and on until it was, unfortunately,...

Maugham talks about writing, reading, theatre, art, philosophy and reflects on his life as an artist.

I love this book so much that I'm posting it just to say so. I'll add more content later.

Granta Publications, 2014 Essays dealing with relationships between men and women, wherein women are still getting shafted but there's...

Attention every art student or anyone who has ever had difficulty expressing an idea artistically. Read this short story. I bought it at...

Editions Gallimard 2015 (French translation) I read the French version of this short story which I happened upon at my friend Becky’s...

Haruki Murakami, 2003 English Translation Vintage, 2005 This book, picked up along with Oé’s short story Seventeen from my friend and...

Published 1935 My copy Routledge Classics 2006 (given to Max for his birthday however) Introduction copyright 1996 Howard Woodhouse This...

Penguin Random House, 2018 I just finished Obama’s book and was surprised to find it was one of those books which make you feel sad it’s...

Volume 3 Simon and Schuster 1969 This third and last volume of Bertrand Russell’s autobiography covers the last two decades of Russell's...

Simon & Schuster, 2018 Former US President Jimmy Carter talks about his religious faith and his work as Sunday school teacher,...

Faber & Faber 2018 Before my friend Sue joined the London public library to reduce her massive book budget, she let me take a look in her...

Ishiguro gave this Lecture in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017 for his «novels of...

Harvard University Press 2017 Talks by Toni Morrison delivered at Harvard University on "the literature of belonging". Forward by...

Volume 2 Atlantic - Little, Brown & Company, 1967 In Volume 2 of his autobiography, which is almost as fascinating as Vol 1, Russell...

Volume 1 Atlantic - Little Brown & Company, 1967 This is another of my random book choices found at a book giveaway. I picked it up...

Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 Riveting, well-written behind the scenes account of the War and Post-war reconstruction period in Iraq (2004)....