The Humans by Matt Haig

Without knowing the premise of the book – an alien on a mission on Earth disguised as a human and being weird at it – I started reading […]

The Return by Hisham Matar & other great books about wars and troubeled lives

I really don’t have too many words to describe this book. And they wouldn’t do it justice anyway. It is extraordinary, how Hisham is able to write about […]

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

I must say I do enjoy books by/about creepy old men being, well, creepy and depressing or weird or drunk or fantasizing about too young girls… or all […]

Life in the Anthropocene

Though it can be very frustrating, I like reading books about the environment and our role in it. And as you may suspect, we play a shitty role. […]

Welcome to Books&Cookies!

I would very much like to tell you a story about my early love for books. How they transported me into other worlds when this one was too much, being my friends, when I had few real ones, how they opened my mind and helped to form the person I am now. 

But I can’t. …