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By Myrthe on November 5, 2012
The subtitle of this book is A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia and that is precisely the red thread throughout the book – the mountains more so than the walk, but I will get to that shortly. This walk was undertaken in the late 1990s, the book first published in 2003. Consequently, the narrative [...]
Posted in Azerbaijan, Book reviews, Caucasus, Georgia, Life in Tbilisi, Non-fiction | Tagged food, Khevsureti, language, Mountains, Svaneti, Tony Anderson, travel, Tusheti |
By Myrthe on February 6, 2011
It is by accident that I am posting this review while in Egypt the people have been protesting against the current regime for more than a week now. I had read these three books in December and January, wrote the review and then completely forgot about this post until yesterday when I was thinking about [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Fiction | Tagged Egypt, Naguib Mahfouz |
By Myrthe on February 3, 2011
Interpreter of Maladies is the first book we read for our book club that I recently got together in Yerevan. We are meeting tonight to discuss Jhumpa Lahiri’s book. I will hopefully blog more about the group and the book discussion in a separate post, but now I just want to write about my own [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Fiction, short stories | Tagged immigration, India, Jhumpa Lahiri, United States |
By Myrthe on November 30, 2010
Vano & Niko is a collection of short stories by Georgian writer Erlom Akhvlediani. By short I do mean very short: the stories are between one and a half and three and a half pages long. At first sight (read) the stories are accessible, but the more you let them simmer, the more they give [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Fiction, Georgia, short stories | Tagged Erlom Akhvlediani, Soviet-Union |
By Myrthe on November 23, 2010
Last week I read To Kill a Mockingbird for the very first time. Yes, it took me this long to finally read this classic. Now that I’ve read it, I regret not having done so earlier. I loved it. It is one of those books I’ll reread on a rainy, cold or otherwise lost weekend. [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Fiction | Tagged Harper Lee, United States |
