Book Review: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn My rating: 4 of 5 stars I feel this book would be a great one to make Western high schoolers, who are convinced of the "evil fascism" of their country, to read. They can whine all they want about how "totalitarian" their government is, … Continue reading Book Review: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Love and Peace: Tolstoy’s View on Spiritual Love

After a long, hard journey with many halts along the way, I finally finished Leo Tolstoy's gargantuan depiction of the Napoleonic wars: War and Peace. The book, at over a thousand pages, is not for the faint of heart or the easily distracted. After reading a particularly tedious description of the war portion of the … Continue reading Love and Peace: Tolstoy’s View on Spiritual Love