Intro I’m back, as promised. Yay, me! November 2025 Reading Roundup This was going to be a light month in terms of reading, no thanks to ongoing health issues and shitty work situation. I read abridged version of a classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And then I tried to finish something I started back…
Month: November 2025
Book Review | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Malvina G. Vogel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Adapted by Malvina G. Vogel Written by Victor Hugo This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest…
Book Review | Labels and Other Stories | Louis de Bernières
Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernières Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of…