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.
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, […]
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
Continuing with the accidental “British gay entertainer turned writer” series. This time a chat show host and fiction for a change. Graham Norton is charming, smart and funny […]
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
Huxley is as wonderful as ever. First of all – have a look at this wonderful used, 55-year-old copy of the book, with obviously a lot of history, […]
About fast fashion books. A rant in three parts.
Part 1: Heartbroken Environmentalist Some time ago I started to delve into the world of books on Instagram, where I see so many people happily posting the stacks […]
‘Believe Me’ and ‘Help’
As a bit of a continuation of the Will Young book post. Here are two of my favourite LGBTQ+ memoirs. Both by Brits, like Will. But comedians, not […]
Kurt Vonnegut and a ‘Breakfast of Champions’
So after my fourth book by Vonnegut, it is clear I will read everything else by him as well. So 10 novels to go + a bunch of […]
The House of Sleep – Jonathan Coe
I have had trouble sleeping for the better part of my life. So a sun-bleached copy of a book about people with sleeping issues, of course, caught my […]
‘To be a Gay Man’ and my everlasting love for Will Young.
2012, Tartu, a younger me struggling with depression and an aching heart. Discovering Will Young’s album Echoes. You know the feeling when a song just seems like it’s […]
William Gibson, the godfather of Cyberspace
Borrowing from Wikipedia: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as […]
The Star Wars book universe
I love Star Wars. Or to be precise, I like the original trilogy, I don’t care much for the prequels and the new ones are too much of […]
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. […]