Lindley's Bookshelf

I had a tough time getting through this one. It is long (more than 850 pages), plodding, repetitive and dated as to language and subject mat...

This one has been on my To Be Read list since I saw the movie Apocalypse Now back in the 1970s. I had not realized that the book is actuall...

I have enjoyed participating this past year in the 2011 To Be Read (TBR) Pile Challenge , which required reading 12 books taken from my To ...

McCullers was just 22 when this first novel was published in 1940. It centers on the relationships between a lonely deaf-mute, John Singer,...

One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his ...

Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's...

In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre , Bertha is the madwoman locked in the attic by her husband Rochester, the simmering Englishman whose ...