— Anonymous Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” impressed me significantly since he narrates the thoughts, feelings and experience of death so vividly, and more importantly, he reveals life wisdoms and society problems beneath Ivan’s death. It reminds me of Cao Xueqin’s words about what is a great work “a grasp of mundane affairs is […]
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If I’m being honest Remembering Babylon was a difficult book…
—Anonymous If I’m being honest Remembering Babylon was a difficult book to read just because it was hard to concentrate and follow through with the reading. I found myself constantly rereading a sentence or paragraph and still not focusing because my mind was elsewhere. I couldn’t read the book, but I did read online summaries […]
