Homemade Lemon Cake

Ok, there are so many interpretations of this book specifically and Jane Austen in general that it is hard to know which I like best--the R...

This is my second Alexandre Dumas book (The Count of Monte Christo was my first) and I would characterize this as a dramatized historical f...

Flaubert is credited with changing the course of fiction forever and this book is the one cited as an example of his ability to summon up t...

This is an action adventure revenge novel, written in 1844 by the prolific and incomparable Alexandre Dumas. The book creates a fantastic ...

This is the seventh book that I have finished in my year of reading classic 19th century French literatire, and my fifth Balzac novel--it i...

Yet another classic 19th century French novel! Young Julien Sorel, the son of a carpenter who is inspired by stories of Napoleon told to h...

I am pretty new to Balzac, but two things. He really nails the human condition in each and every tales he tells, and while this is very go...

I read this with a group of people who were all in a group on Facebook led by the inimitable Anna Barker, a Russian Literature professor a...