Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
I had a rather disastrous start with Ms Woolf when I read The Waves in 2008, but I now realize that I may have chosen the wrong starting point. When I was in Tbilisi last year, I came across a volume of Virginia Woolf’s short stories, with the stories in chronological order. As I also [...]
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My reading is not going very fast at the moment. I am reading Geert Mak’s In Europe, which at 1100+ pages will keep me busy for a while. I am reading one chapter a day, over breakfast in bed in the morning. At this pace I will finish it at the end of December. I [...]
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Chosen by Chaim Potok has been my favorite and most beloved book since I first read it when I was sixteen or seventeen. It is the one book I have read more often than any other, this last reread must be the tenth or something close to that. It is my ultimate comfort read, [...]
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Ever since this book started appearing on the bookblogs early this year, I have had my eye on Child 44. This only increased once it made it to the longlist of the Booker Prize and got quite a lot of criticism for that. Reviews have been very mixed, ranging from great to ‘This book sucks!’ [...]
Furry kids and reading
I am still alive, am woefully behind writing and posting my reviews. I just don’t have time and patience enough to sit down and write at the moment. Because it’s been a while since I posted cat-pics here, I figured it was time for another one of me and my furry kids. This one was [...]
