On several other occasions, I wrote that I enjoy books by Stephen King. For me, he is a master of storytelling. I know that if I pick up a book by him I will want to go back to it whenever I can until I finish. So when I chanced upon this title in one …
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In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. [...] with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we …
In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. I'm still making my way through the shortlist of Man Booker Prize for 2017, which I got as a birthday …
I've had this book on my shelves for a few years now. It seems I picked it up on one of my crazy trips to second-hand bookshops. I don't remember why I bought it, but if I was to guess it was probably because I liked Lord of the Flies a lot when I read it in …
I bought this book already during the lockdown. Deprived of a possibility of visiting a physical bookshop, and not really being a fan of buying books on Amazon (the way the books are organized there, and their dumb algorithms make for cumbersome browsing) I ventured to AbeBooks. To my delight and a loud groan from …
After reading a few quite serious books, a mix of fiction and non-fiction, I felt like something lighter. My default genre in those situations is crime, and I do have quite a big backlog on my Kindle. I found I had another book by Rachel Abbott. I read here And So It Begins just before the …
One of the two winners of the Man Booker Prize for 2019. I bought all the shortlisted books, so I will slowly make my way through them. I tend to be a bit apprehensive about the Man Booker Prize nominees. I always think they will be extremely difficult to read, even though I enjoyed The …
Wow! We're six months into the year! Halfway...and four months at home. I hope you all are doing well and staying safe. Life certainly has changed in the last months, moods vary, some days are ok, others not so much. Travelling feels like a distant dream, but I don't give up and keep hoping to …
Another book I brought from my trip to Dubai in July 2019. It seems so far away now, that the whole world has locked down and after three months is only hesitantly relaxing the measures. Other books I bought there were more focused on Arabic literature. But somehow Murmur caught my eye. It is based on the …
I bought this book in July 2019, when I was in Dubai. While visiting the impressive shopping malls, I spent 40 minutes in the biggest bookshop in Dubai (it's Dubai, so everything has to be the biggest). I decided to use this opportunity to expand my horizons and bought several books that originally were published …
