Overview Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor — […]
Author: Nikki Byrd
‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand
Overview This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite…of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy…and […]
BOOK ONE: CHAPTER 1
Chapter 1 Charlotte Winters smiled. She watched blood drop onto the floor of the adjacent stall. Someone groaned; someone in grey, checkered Armani pants and alligator loafers from (what was that?) Tom Ford. It was […]
Roark “The Fountainhead” pg531 (Ayn Rand)
In the eighteen months that followed, Roark had no time to wonder about Mr. Bradley. Roark was building his greatest assignment. For the last year he lived at the construction site, in a shanty hastily […]
‘The Shining’ by Stephen King – Book Review
Overview Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with […]
‘The Master and Margarita’ BY Mikhail Bulgakov – BOOK REVIEW
Overview Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, […]
‘THE CATCHER IN THE RYE’ BY J.D SALINGER – BOOK REVIEW
Overview Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple […]
