The Frugal Chariot

Reading Notes of a Bibliophile

Friday, May 22, 2026

Tragic Moment

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A Separate Peace  by John Knowle s “What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever w...

The Enigma of Evil

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Evil:  A challenge to philosophy and theology   by Paul Ricœur This is a small but positively brilliant exegesis of the origin of evil. Ric...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

Art and Morals

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The Shape of the Artistic Mind:   A Search for the Metaphysical Link Between Art and Morals in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas  by Bradley T. ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Suddenly a Wall Appeared

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The Wall  by Marlen Haushofer “ I often look forward to a time when there won't be anything left to grow attached to. I'm tired of ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

My Lonely

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Sula  by Toni Morrison “Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and ...
Friday, May 08, 2026

The Well of the Past

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Joseph and His Brothers   by Thomas Mann "Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?" With this beginni...
Friday, May 01, 2026

Contemporary Prophecy

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The Hungry Tide   by Amitav Ghosh Words are like the winds that blow ripples on the water's surface . . ."  -  The Hungry Tide, p. ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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                                                 Sea of Poppies            by Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh is a story-teller of the highest or...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Wonder in Literature

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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age   by Hubert L. Dreyfus Wonder is the feeling of a philosop...

A New Day

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The Old Man and the Sea   by Ernest Hemingway “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Haunting Tale

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Burial Rites  by Hannah Kent “It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Fearless Narrator

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This Boy's Life  by Tobias Wolff “Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.” ― Tobias Wolff, This Boy...
Friday, April 03, 2026

Little Man

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Hombrecito   by Santiago José Sánchez “He kisses her again, with more conviction this time, the way she kisses his cuts and bruises, as if l...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Conquest Masquerading as Aid

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Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the Res t  by William Easterly "The quest for agency is everywhere and nowhere in the busin...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

In the Shadows

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The Roving Shadows  by  Pascal Quignard "We were constructed in the shadows. Passively in the shadows." - Pascal Quignard The book...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Clinic for the Past

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Time Shelter   by Georgi Gospodinov Time Shelter introduces Gospodinov to American readers as a key figure in international literature. Geo...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Being Created

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At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop “Until a man is dead, he is not yet done being created.” ― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Voices of a Guilty Past

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Ludwig's Room  by Alois Hotschnig "What we've become is horrifying and what we will become is disastrous. We're destroyed...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Bernhard Short Stories

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Goethe Dies  by Thomas Bernhard "I went inside myself, so to speak, and not outside myself anymore." - Thomas Bernhard Thomas Be...
Friday, March 13, 2026

London Novel

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Under the Net  by Iris Murdoch “I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotio...

A Son's Story

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If You Kept a Record of Sins   by Andrea Bajani "I think it happened to you, too, the first time you arrived." - Andrea Bajani Th...
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

Nuclear Age

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The Fate of the Earth & The Abolition  by Jonathan Schell “It was not unless one lifted one's gaze from all the allegedly normal ev...
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