Book Review: The Outsider / The Stranger 4⭐

"The Outsider (The Stranger) " by Albert Camus The Stranger was published in French as L’Étranger in 1942, as The Outsider in England & as The Stranger in the United States. The book followed the narrative of a Frenchman named Meursault, his lack of emotions / grief from his mother's recent death was later used …

Book Review: This Side of Paradise 2.5⭐

"This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald First F Scott's novel, a rather short and semi-enjoyable read (less than 6 hours), a glimpse of background information about his own life and psyche, not exactly a page turner though. More than half way in then I saw the familiarity of melancholic and depressing style - …