I’ve never been into crime fiction. This is not an excuse or an apology. This is a heads-up that I’m not going to tell you about how amazingly the crime(s) in this book are planned or described. Honestly, I don’t think I’m the right person to judge that. I haven’t killed anyone, have I? (Please…
Category: sometimes I feel like writing in English
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche – “Americanah”
During her talks, she said: “America has made great progress for which we should be very proud.” In her blog she wrote: Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.
Margaret Atwood – “The Testaments”
I won’t say I was overly excited about reading this book. I’ll just say that I preordered it three months ago and when it finally arrived last week, I tried to finish the book I was reading as fast as I could (I still had time to write a review for it though) so I…
“The Secret Life of Bees” – Sue Monk Kidd
Yes, I did start reading this book just because it seemed easy to read and I needed something to fill my 10-hour bus trip. I was right. It is such an easy book to read. But it is also such a difficult book to get over. It’s a story told in the voice of a…
Shaun Bythell – “The Diary of a Bookseller”
I’ve been told that this is the type of book I would read. Which is very accurate – I really was reading it back then so making this statement didn’t require to be a master of human psychic or logical deduction. But it is true, it is my type of book. Mostly because I don’t…
Daniel Kahneman – “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
I’m a fiction-lover. That’s what I thought and stated repeatedly my entire (reading) life. But now I start to worry that I don’t actually deserve to call myself that, as half of the books I’ve read this month are non-fiction and they’re not some textbooks I need for university. Am I getting old? Am I…
