Haruki Murakami explores, in seven short stories, the loneliness of men without women
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The Debutante and Other Stories – Leonora Carrington – Quotes
From introduction by Sheila Heti: How many writers today would dare to write as Carrington does? Everyone tries to make so much sense - not only to themselves, but to others, especially. I don't know if she was trying to make sense also to her Surrealist friends, but I know that sense was low on …
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The Debutante and Other Stories – Leonora Carrington
We can create entire worlds in our imagination and this book also shows it can be fun and effortless. Carrington allows her imagination to run wild and not bother with the limits of reality. Another book I bought from Bookshop.org. Quite surprising this time as it is a collection of short stories. And I am …
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Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran – Shahrnush Parsipur
It is a dreamy and nightmarish tale of women for various reasons abandoning men in their lives. Set in Iran in 1953, during the coup d’etat that rages around them in Tehran, the book still manages to bring an eerie sense of calm and isolation. I got this book from my mum for Easter. She …
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The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu
The second part of the trilogy opened with The Three-Body Problem is even more impressive in its sheer scale. Cixin Liu slowly but firmly divorces himself from the confines of current times and takes us deftly into the future. That is anything but bright. As with the previous one I got this book from my …
The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
I’m no expert on sci-fi, but for me, this was one of the eeriest reads recently. Pushing me out of my comfort zone and making me consider other, foreign to me perspectives. I always believed that good sci-fi asks the question about what does it mean to be human. This one asks many even bigger …
Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams
Do you know this awful feeling when you know you should like a book but you just don’t. Sadly this is what my experience with Queenie has been. It’s an important book in its honesty, but I just couldn’t get into it, constantly being pulled out of focus by my annoyance with the main character. …
Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
What a gem! A one in a million book, written in a unique voice. A book that manages to be extremely funny and heartbreaking at the same time. I got it from Bookshop.org so it also made me feel good to be supporting small bookshops. I heard about it a few years ago when it …
Snow – Orhan Pamuk
It is a weird book. A dreamy love story against the backdrop revolution in an isolated small town. A tale of winter and snow, of dreams and identity lost. A clash of the global with the local. I read it right after reading the social guide to Turkey Turcja. Półprzewodnik Obyczajowy. And it was a …
Weather – Jenny Offill
A weird and dreamy book, that feels a bit like passing through a cloud. It is quite a short one and it reads like a dream. Taking us on a hazy trip through our polarized world. I received it in one of the subscription boxes, so didn’t know anything about the author or the book …
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