A damaged family. An overprotective father. A daughter with a new perfect boyfriend. What can go wrong? It is another book from a bookish advent calendar I got from my friend as my birthday gift. The first one was not a roaring success, but since I read it, it got me out of a reading …
It is one of those books that you do judge by the cover. And the cover tells you it is another run-of-the-mill thriller. Now, it can be one of the better ones providing a few hours of escapism, or it can be a mediocre one that will steal a few hours from you in a …
In London I was not so content as I am here on the lake and in the Alps, where there is solitude for the mind. London is perpetual; a constant streaming, present hurrying towards a receding future. Here, where time is neither so crammed nor so scarce, I fancy, anything might happen, anything is possible. …
Continue reading Frankissstein: A Love Story – Jeanette Winterson – Quotes
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerfulMary Shelley, Frankenstein A book that combines so many things in it and yet manages to drive a coherent message, or rather a question. Jumping through time and space, through the whole range of emotions, it takes us on a wild imaginary trip. Imaginary as the trip is, …
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It’s really rare that I do not finish a book. Unlike in my daily life, I seem to have an infinite amount of patience for bad writing. This is terrible because I must have wasted hours on books that I did not enjoy, just because of my sheer stubbornness to finish what I’ve started. But …
A satire on the world of tech startups, with some feminism thrown in. The book holds its pace well but misses to gain depth in all the rush. Good entertainment with loftier ambitions. Another of the Books that Matter acquisitions to join Beautiful World Where Are You - Sally Rooney, The Inland Sea - Madeleine …
Because this land they live in is the land of missing things. A land stripped of its gold, its rivers, its buffalo, its Indians, its tigers, its jackals, its birds and its green and its living. To move through this land and believe Ba's tales is to see each hill as a burial mound with …
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A western is a popular movie genre, but much less so in the book world. Here we have one that also undergoes a bit of a transformation in terms of the main topics. It is not about cowboys conquering the West. It is about two children of Asian descent being conquered by the West. A …
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Supposedly there’s no shame in hard work, and yet work is such a complex notion in today’s world. On one hand, it is supposedly the employee’s market, on the other the work is becoming more and more precarious. Olga Gitkiewicz takes a closer look at what work means in Poland at the beginning of the …
The grottiness and expense of London began to get to her; she got tired of gorging on the canapés at literary launches in order to scrimp on groceries, tired of the fuggy smell of cigarettes ground into the red-and-maroon carpeting of pubs, tired of the pipes bursting every time it froze in winter, and of …
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