“She wished to find out about this hazardous business of “passing,” this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one’s chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.”  -- Nella Larsen Why I’m Reading this Book? Written during "Harlem Renaissance”, first published in 1924, Nella Larsen’s… Continue reading Passing

“...There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”  - George Eliot Why I’m Reading this Book? I’ve read Middlemarch by George Eliot and it’s a sprawling story with about 1000 pages , so when I read the author’s name, I was skeptical. But on further research I… Continue reading Silas Marner