Literary Fiction
I can hardly believe that these words that had sunk deep inside me are surfacing and coming out through my own lips rather than resting heavily all the way to my grave. — Mother, Concerning My Daughter Recently I’ve been very taken with My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan
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Quick review Absolutely loved it — the format of fake interviews to piece together the strange and magnetic oral history of a fictional 70s rock band was just what I needed to get me back into reading after being too busy (or feeling too busy, at least) to really sit down
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Kim Jiyoung… is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung… is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. Kim Jiyoung… has started acting strangely. Kim Jiyoung… is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung… is every woman. While offenders
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Teil 1 der Montevideo-Reihe, übersetzt aus dem Spanischen von Peter Kultzen und herausgegeben vom Unionsverlag Berlin, dt. Ersterscheinung Februar 2020 Ich bekam »Falsche Ursula« von einer Freundin zum Geburtstag geschenkt und war, auf der Stelle und auf einen Schlag, begeistert. Allein der Waschzettel verspricht Krimivergnügen, wie man es vielleicht sonst
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Spoiler warning! This review contains major, in-depth spoilers for the novel both in terms of plot and emotional beats. Content warnings: the novel contains depictions of domestic violence, emotional abuse, and mentions of childhood abuse. In Sally Rooney’s second novel Normal People, people make decisions based on what other
Fantasy
I love short stories, and I love myth retellings — if you, too, love both of those things, then you’ll have a blast with Where the Wild Ladies Are. It’s a collection of retellings of Japanese myths, and set in Japan, using many of the historical locations as a
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I am all for the author indignantly rejecting the notion of her novel being Joycean. (I have never read Ulysses.)Reading the brief introduction with at least some biographical details (albeit, I feel, not a fraction of the whole story) has made me very curious for the rest of Lispector’
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I am very much enjoying this — quite short — novel, as bewildering as it often is. Bewildering mainly because on the one hand (and I’ve seen people bring this up in reviews on goodreads) … nothing much happens; certainly for the first half of the story. As for nothing happening: I
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Previously on Death Comes to Pemberley: Episode 2. There's many different ways to phrase Occam's Razor, but this one from the first series of Luther, I've always liked best: All things being equal, the simplest solution is the best solution. If we do believe
Literary Fiction
Previously on Death Comes to Pemberley: Episode 1. Good grief! As Pemberley falls into a state of uncertainty and disarray, Darcy reverts back to his Lord of the Manor persona and drags Lizzie and Georgiana into misery on his coattails. In case you missed it, the subtext beneath Lizzie and
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When I checked my blog stats earlier while preparing for Death Comes to Pemberley, I noticed that someone has found my blog by typing "death pemberley utter shite" into a search engine. Something like this has happened before, with By Any Means, months ago, and I was just