I spent the last decade or so thinking that this play was something that had just gone over my head, but upon rereading outside of an academic environment, I realize that it’s even stranger than I’d thought.

A perfect read for when you are feeling reminiscent and have a couple of hours to spare, I Capture the Castle reads as an adult far more heartbreakingly than as a child.

I laughed out loud throughout and ended with a tear on my cheek. I never would have suspected that Dickens could so affect me.

I wish this had been the commencement speech at my graduation if only to hear my family trash it after.

In rereading the Hound of the Baskervilles, I noticed for the first time the unfairness in Watson’s depiction and find myself disillusioned now with the Sherlock Holmes tales.

I have never more thoroughly enjoyed a book as I have The Delighted States, which has served as introduction to translation studies and comparative literature more generally. It is definitely now my favorite nonfiction book and on the short list of books overall.

This book, in a word, is wavy. I wish I had read it in Spanish first, but I didn’t even notice that it was a translation until too late.

Miller sends the reader on a wild ride every time.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is a marvel of a detective novel, a great deal funnier and better written than the genre it mirrors.

Homegoing is beautifully written, but it makes me want to get a full family history from everyone I come across.