In 2018, I was on a European solo trip (as usual). So, I had a lot of time for reading on park benches between sightseeing. This is why […]
Tiny Reviews
Educated by Tara Westover
I am always late to reading the super popular books because my to-read list is just too long and it is way easier to find classics in second-hand […]
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
I am extremely bad at relationships. In my almost 20 years of grown-up life, I have managed to spend a staggering 4 years in something you could kind […]
There There by Tommy Orange
My mom loves Native Americans. She read all the books with them that were available in Soviet Estonia in the 80s. The Last of the Mohicans was, and […]
‘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 […]