This is only the third novel by Jackson, and yet it clearly shows her incredible skill in building atmosphere. A skill that I haven’t seen matched yet. The way she slightly twists the ordinary to make it unnerving, slightly creepy to all the way scary and then back again, as if nothing happened, this is …
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 …
Sometimes you come across a book that makes you think: ‘how nice to finally talk to someone intelligent’. And that is one of those books, Głowacki’s ease of storytelling and ability to seamlessly jump from a raunchy anecdote into very serious musings on the nature of the world make this book a pleasure to read. …
And another one of the December 2020 gifts, this one is probably a birthday one. I timed it well with my birthday, it is too far from Christmas to give people and excuse to lump the gifts together, so I get them twice in one month. I start wondering if I'll ever again read a …
Continue reading Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as told to me) Story – Bess Kalb
Fates and Furies has been recommended to me by my mum (funnily enough, as I read it I discovered she did not, so it was all a hearsay recommendation), back when it was published in 2015. It was lingering on my Kindle for a while despite, or maybe because the book caused so much noise. …
It wasn’t really about the engineering of the space, the real battle was about the culture — about changing the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, of changing their minds about who their streets were for. If building roads actually resulted in less traffic, then surely after sixty years of interstate highway construction we would …
It was probably last year when I got from my mum a set of four books about modern approaches to urban design. I read them slowly because the subject matter is a serious one. It touches us every day. Since most of us live in cities, the design mistakes haunt us, making our life difficult …
Continue reading Streetfight. Handbook for an Urban Revolution – Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow
The third of my Cyprus holiday crime/thriller reads. The previous two were The Winner by David Baldacci and Camino Island by John Grisham. Coben is the third writer I do fall back on when in need of not too challenging entertainment. He certainly knows how to come up with a twist in the story and …
This was one of those books that lingered on my Kindle forever and a day. It just always terrified my with its bulk. And for a book to do that on Kindle it really has to be long. Two years ago I read How To Be Alone, Franzen's collection of essays. And I really enjoyed …
'It's not easy writing about nothing' That's how Patti Smith starts her book. The words uttered by a cowpoke in her dream. A kind of challenge that she accepts. Before I proceed with the review bit, I need to make a small disclaimer. I have seen Patti Smith live on All Points East in 2018, …
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