Currently reading The sweetest dream by Doris Lessing. Ending this very short blog post with a random webcam picture, as per usual:

Seriously, this has got be the best reaction ever to winning the Nobel Prize in Literature:

THREE DRABBLE-RELATED THINGS

1.Margaret Drabble reads Katherine Mansfield's The doll's house here.

2. I have finally ordered A day in the life of a smiling woman: complete short stories from Adlibris.

3. A picture of the brilliant woman:

IT WAS A TIME NOT OF WHAT WAS THERE, BUT OF WHAT WASN'T

God, it's been ages since I updated this book blog. Let's do it in bullet points:

1. I went to Berlin a couple of weeks ago and bought some books at Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann. They have a really great English section, but they are a little bit too expensive for my taste. Ignored that this time.

2. Books read:
Sophie Hannah - Lasting damage
Gillian Flynn - Dark places
Siri Hustvedt - The sorrows of an American
Siri Hustvedt - The enchantment of Lily Dahl

3. I've really struggled with what to read lately, which is probably why I haven't updated this blog in so long (and that is probably why I have been reading things like Lasting damage.) I've started so many books, but just haven't been able to finish them. I firmly believe that you can't (or shouldn't) just pick up a book, any book, and read it. The time has to be right, but no book has felt right these past few weeks. Makes me feel really lost.

4. Soon the course I am taking at university is over. The only part I really liked was the English literature module. We had to do an essay on something we had read in the course literature and I chose to write about Susan Glaspell's Trifles. The essay was supposed to be quite short so I thought: why not share it? It's not great and there are some mistakes I can't be bothered to fix, but it isn't awful either. Anyway, since I can't work out how to upload it here, you can find it on one of my old blogs instead. It is in English. Click!