Abaddon’s Gate James S. A. Corey Orbit Release Date: June 4, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-12907-7 NOTE: This review contains SPOILERS for the first two books in The Expanse series. If you want a pristine reading experience of this series, please do not read this review until you are ready to start […]
I think it’s fairly obvious that I love reading. More often than not, I read books that have me delighting in the quality of the writing or the cleverness of the story. But sometimes I come across a passage that truly stands out, where I stop and say to myself, […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.