Click here for other installments in this review series… Today I spent some time cleaning out my closet, one of my favorite things to do on academic break.  Afterwards, I settled down to read another part of BK.  In all honesty, the chapter “From the Life of the Elder Zosima” did not look too promising.  Continue reading

Click here for other installments in this review series… In the previous installment, we saw the Karamazov family and friends bickering at Alyosha’s home, the monastery.  Now we see the Karamazov family feuding in its natural habitat, and as what the father Fyodor and the son Dmitri call themselves, half-proudly: “sensualists.” Book III really gets Continue reading

Click here for other installments in this review series… Oh, yes, I am still reading this book.  It’s a quick read; I simply haven’t been reading very frequently. Case in point: book II is almost entirely the dialogue that takes place when the Karamazov family comes together at (of all places) the monastery.  Dialogue is Continue reading

Click here for other installments in this review series… (A number of bloggers I follow write their thoughts on lengthy books as they go along.  In fact, I believe one of them did this for The Brothers Karamazov in the last year or so.  Credit to them for the good idea!) For years, I’ve wanted Continue reading