Olive is special and at the same time she’s like all of us, we’ve all done things we’re not proud of, been mean and even cruel, we all fail to understand what others hold against us. Sometimes we all just get lonely and yet we get on with our life, because what else is there …
Continue reading Quotes from Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories – Elizabeth Strout
Olive is not a nice person. She's a big woman both physically and psychologically. Overwhelming one may say. She has a gentle and kind husband and a troubled son and she towers over both of them. She's the teacher you were afraid of in primary school. The harsh one that once she had an opinion …
Continue reading Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories – Elizabeth Strout
For once not about books. Almost every year some time before Christmas I travel to a Christmas market, usually in Germany, but this year I decided to go to Copenhagen. I must say Christmas markets are a serious thing in Denmark! I've never seen something like the one in Tivoli. Christmas market has to meet …
I’m still soldiering through Foxglove Summer. As I wrote before I loved Rivers of London, then the charm started wearing off at Moon Over Soho, but the ending had me reaching right away for Whispers Underground. Then force of habit (I really got used to PC Grant) made me start Broken Homes, which I enjoyed …
The literary agent in Marian Keyes' 'The Woman Who Stole My Life' said: give them 'more of the same'. That's exactly what Jonasson did, more (feels like a lot more) of the same as in ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’ just not so lightly absurd anymore, instead a bit heavy, …
Continue reading The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden – Jonas Jonasson
To escape all the tragic news last Friday I started reading The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. It worked like a charm, by end of Sunday I was also done with Moon Over Soho and now on Wednesday I'm in the middle of Whispers Under Ground. I promised myself to take a break after …
It’s a book about loss, grief and regret, but also about survivors, that’s why I thought those quotes would be better today than any review, or my commentary to the unbelievable horror that happened yesterday… “She was, she sensed sharply as she reached the far side of the parking lot, an untouchable. Not from scorn …
Continue reading Quotes from Did You Ever Have a Family – Bill Clegg
I bought this book because years ago I read ‘Watermelon’ by Marian Keyes and I remembered laughing out loud and this warm fuzzy feeling. ‘The Woman Who Stole My Life’ is probably typical Marian Keyes story, it's about Stella - a woman with kids, an ex-husband, work problem, compulsive eating issues verging on disorder, meets …
That’s probably a low thing to do – a post referring to my previous post, but I really have to share my surprise with you (and I’m still reading ‘Did You Ever Have a Family?’) When I write my reviews I tend on purpose not to read other reviews, I don’t want to be biased …
In the summer of 1975 in New Hampshire a 15 year old Nola Kellergan vanished without a trace. In 2008 her body is found and Harry Quebert, famous writer, becomes the main suspect. Marcus Goldman, Harry's friend and protégé, fighting with his writing block, rushes to Somerset to find out the truth. The story meanders …
Continue reading The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair – Joël Dicker
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