Tony's Reading List

In 'Oliver Twist', Dickens had already coined the phrase 'The law is an ass', but it is 'Bleak House' which shows th...

21st January Dear Diary, I have just finished Volume 1 of 'Persuasion', and I have a confession to make: I am beginning to lose fait...

Reading in a foreign language is difficult for a number of reasons. Firstly, you rarely understand every word, and even the ones you do unde...

George Eliot (who was born not far from my home town and used it as the basis of 'Middlemarch') wrote big books. Big, weighty books ...

'Stream of conciousness' is one of those expressions that I had a vague idea of, but had never really come across until last year. T...

A common theme that comes up in the Facebook groups I frequent is the comparison of favourite books to comfort food; I don't mean junk f...

Mugging grannies, kicking puppies, dissing 'Jane Eyre': I am about to be guilty of one of these three crimes. Alright, seeing as thi...

During the Christmas holidays, I happened to catch part of a 'Home Improvement' episode where Tim set Al straight about his relation...

As people seem to be in the habit of sending me books now (or asking if I would like them sent), I thought that it was about time to post ...

Welcome to Tony's Reading List , a place where I pretend to know a lot more about literature than I actually do! Tony?   That's ...