I love lists. I mean not as much as Rob Gordon or Amy Santiago, but still. So I was happy to find a book called The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books in a second-hand store in my hometown.
‘There but for the’ by Ali Smith
Beautifully weird … or weirdly beautiful. Not quite sure, but either way, I loved this book. The back cover says: ‘There once was a man who, one night…
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sometimes life is just chaotic and exhausting and gets you stuck in a reading slump. There I was some time ago with a mountain of started books by…
The Secret Life of Books by Tom Mole
Throughout the book, Mole kept repeating that we don’t see books as an object on itself. That we just see the text it contains. Advising in the first…
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
This (very illuminated) book confused the shit out of me… 😐 I found it in a second-hand store and bought it knowing, that it was on my to-read…
Another two sci-fi books: Woman on the Edge of Time & An Unkindness of Ghosts
Two sci-fi novels by two women, written 40 years apart, with female protagonists. Two topics – slavery and feminism – explored through space and time travel. I think…
Two sci-fi books: Project Hail Mary + Sleeping Giants
I love sci-fi. Be it movies, TV shows or books. Some crazy imagination paired with real science just hits the right spots for me. So it is a…
A bit about Allen Ginsberg
I like the beatniks. It started, like for a lot of people, with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and from there I dived into William S. Burroughs Junky.…
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live. Eleanor leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats…
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
I read Bridge of Clay last Christmas. It was my last book for 2021 (I still have 2 and a half books planned for this year) and so,…