“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.” In the summer, a family travels to a house on the top of a hill with the view of a lighthouse. A woman and her son look out to the lighthouse. He wants to […]
Please excuse me while I furiously try to make my cannonball goal
The joys of motherhood brilliantly illustrates why we write entire novels. Sometimes worlds, feelings, transitions, people, countries cannot be captured by a sole sentence or even a review. This books wrenched my heart, stole my breath and carried me through hope and despair, lives and worlds. It made me reevaluate my relationships with other people. It made me mourn the depravity of the world. It made me dance with hope of the good in life. “In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help […]
Sense and sensibility
Sense and sensibility is one of those books that I always felt was better in cinematic portrayal than in actual reading. After my latest reading I’m not so sure. As we all know the tale focuses on two sisters, Elinor and Marianne as they navigate poverty as a result of losing their father and the customs of 1800’s England being shite, basically. The book seems to imply that the eldest sister embodies Sense, she values good judgement and careful actions. Marianne on the other hand […]
So much awesomeness! Tusen, tusen takk, Mathilde!
So I came home from a long day at work yesterday to find a pick-up slip in the postbox, but as the weather is both very humid and rather cold at the moment, there is a thin film of ice coating the ground, making it pretty much lethal to walk anywhere at all. Hence, once I was actually indoors, I had no plans of leaving again, even with the enticement of books waiting for me at the post office. Today, I put my trusty crampons […]
Inside the mind of a girl who names things
“She’d strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that… Well, then she didn’t rightly know what happened next. But she hoped that after that the world would start to run itself a bit, like a gear-watch proper fit and kissed with oil. That was what she hoped would happen.” Auri is a character introduced in the Kingkiller Chronicles. The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a […]
Okay, sure. Girl, Train, Murder. Fine.
Okay, first of all, Rachel, the main character, is in her thirties. She’d a woman. She’s a WOMAN on the train. Second of all, uhm, sure, fine, I guess. The girl on the train is an easy read. Not much happens on the pages, the story is pretty straightforward even as Rachel blacks out and forgets large parts of it. But blackouts do not equal nuance. It’s impossible to miss anything. Everything that is lost in black outs or changes in point of view, are […]
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