I am so much behind with reviewing the books I read that I’m still going back to books I read in the summer and fall of 2018, but maybe it is good, for 2018 was, in general, a good year for me. I bought this book during my crazy book-crawl back in October. As one …
It is not a pleasant book, it could not be given that the subject here is the first-person account of home abuse. Our narrator is a writer and a young wife when we first hear her voice she actually is no longer a wife. The first time she speaks to us is to reclaim her …
Continue reading When I Hit You: Or the Portrait of a Writer as a Young Wife – Meena Kandasamy
For the first time in my life, I felt like something other than a young person. I was thirty-two, but in the last seven years I had worked more than most people do in twenty. I was tired, not old but bearing down hard on middle age, and I admitted that I was no longer …
I’m still not sure what to think about this book, because I bought it based on the cover, having no idea what to expect. And then it surprised me a bit. I expected something more literary, what I got was a brutal and layered thriller. So we have a case of mixed feelings. As a …
This is what happens when you share a Kindle library with someone, in this case my mum. To relax and unwind she reads romance, while I prefer crime. I don't know how I did it, but I downloaded this book from her library. Then while on vacation in Portugal, tired from more serious reads I …
Parenthood, it seems makes you nervous for the rest of your life. Even when your daughter is twenty and full of cheerful, impenetrable rage and not doing at all well in Boston, 240 miles away. He says, „Something seems to be going on with Bette.” „Rice?” How many other Bettes were at the party? How …
I read The Hours years ago, and obviously watched the movie. Loved both at the time but have not read anything by Cunningham since then. I found this book in the local flea market, where I picked it up for 50p. Reading it made me realize how I changed as a person. I’m still a …
This was one of the vacation reads that I read between more serious books. It is the most basic of thrillers. I will be brief about it, because it really is not much to talk about. A daughter of spy parents that were killed years ago in Paris, decides to find out exactly what happened. …
Flights have won Man Booker International Prize this year, I was very happy when it was announced, even though I have not read the book (it was published in Polish ten years ago, so I had my chance). Now I have decided to read both the original and he English edition. I think it will …
Do you sometimes feel guilty about not having read a certain book? It does sometimes happen to me, I admit the older I the more resistant to this feeling I am, but it still happens. This was one of such books. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. We have here a story of an aging …
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