What I've read lately:
Lisa Alther - Kinflicks
Lydia Davis - Can't and won't
Aravind Adiga - The white tiger
Denise Mina - The end of the wasp season
Sophie Hannah - The point of rescue
Siri Hustvedt - The blazing world
Currently reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, though I'm taking breaks in order to read this Swedish crime triology I've gotten pathetically addicted to.
"No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why."
- The blazing world, Siri Hustvedt
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20140607
IF THIS WAS ADULTHOOD, THE ONLY IMPROVEMENT SHE COULD DETECT IN HER SITUATION WAS THAT NOW SHE COULD EAT DESSERT WITHOUT EATING HER VEGETABLES.
God, long time no see book blog. These are my literature-related news:
1. In May, me and my boyfriend went to Kulturhuset in Stockholm and listened to/watched an interview between Jan Gradvall and Donna Tartt. So surreal to see her in real life, and everything she talked about was just so interesting. She seemed like such a friendly, open person.
2. What I've read lately:
Iris Murdoch - The unicorn
It was OK, really good sometimes, kind of boring at other times.
Jung Chang - Wild swans: three daughters of China
This book is one of the best ones I have ever read. I could not put it down, I dreamt about it, I talked about it, I thought about it. It was just so great and heartbreaking and scary and sad and just everything inbetween.
Ian McEwan - The child in time
I felt like there was something missing from this novel: I maybe wanted him to concentrate even more on the protagonist's feelings about his lost daughter, but it was OK.
I really feel like I am forgetting a book, which is annoying. I'm sure of it. However, what I do know is that I read some short stories from Open secrets by Alice Munro, and then stopped. Now I'm reading Kinflicks by Lisa Alther.
1. In May, me and my boyfriend went to Kulturhuset in Stockholm and listened to/watched an interview between Jan Gradvall and Donna Tartt. So surreal to see her in real life, and everything she talked about was just so interesting. She seemed like such a friendly, open person.
2. What I've read lately:
Iris Murdoch - The unicorn
It was OK, really good sometimes, kind of boring at other times.
Jung Chang - Wild swans: three daughters of China
This book is one of the best ones I have ever read. I could not put it down, I dreamt about it, I talked about it, I thought about it. It was just so great and heartbreaking and scary and sad and just everything inbetween.
Ian McEwan - The child in time
I felt like there was something missing from this novel: I maybe wanted him to concentrate even more on the protagonist's feelings about his lost daughter, but it was OK.
I really feel like I am forgetting a book, which is annoying. I'm sure of it. However, what I do know is that I read some short stories from Open secrets by Alice Munro, and then stopped. Now I'm reading Kinflicks by Lisa Alther.
20140506
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Been reading in Swedish lately, but also read While I was gone by Sue Miller and The hand that first held mine by Maggie O'Farrell.
"I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you're poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same."
- While I was gone, Sue Miller
Been reading in Swedish lately, but also read While I was gone by Sue Miller and The hand that first held mine by Maggie O'Farrell.
"I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you're poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same."
- While I was gone, Sue Miller
20140415
DOMESTIC SCENES
What I've read lately:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah (Definitely recommend it. Was very good.)
Suzanne Rindell - The other typist (Don't waste your time reading this clumsily written novel.)
J.D. Salinger - Raise high the room beam, carpenters (Read this nice little novella. As always, Salinger is so stylish, quietly funny as well as quietly sad.)
Anne Brontë - The tenant of Wildfell Hall (Loved it.)
Also: Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for The goldfinch, yay!
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah (Definitely recommend it. Was very good.)
Suzanne Rindell - The other typist (Don't waste your time reading this clumsily written novel.)
J.D. Salinger - Raise high the room beam, carpenters (Read this nice little novella. As always, Salinger is so stylish, quietly funny as well as quietly sad.)
Anne Brontë - The tenant of Wildfell Hall (Loved it.)
Also: Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for The goldfinch, yay!
20140331
HOW I FEEL AT THE MOMENT:
"She felt mute and contented, loaded with potential, yet entirely unproductive."
- The private lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller
- The private lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller
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