to my own surprise, loved this!

kun kirjassa on kaikki oikein

I loved Andre Aciman ´s Call me by your name (2007). Loved the sequel to it Find me (2019) and this, Besson ´s Lie with me to me, resembled so much Aciman ´s themes, his coming of age- story, the eroticism and tenderness of first love, of love altogether, his writing all and all, but somehow, even...

reading this books makes me wonder the authenticity of the priaises on the cover of the book (and the first 5 pages…)

women ´s prize 2026, shorlisted

taas se kliseinen ”kokoaan suurempi”.

when the text invites you to read it over and over again

Rene Karabash: She who remains.

If Andrew Miller´s Oxcygen was a slight dissapointment in after Miller´s The Land in Winter, so now reading Paul Auster´s Sunset Park after Baumgartner follows that same line of emotions. Not that Sunset Park would be a bad book, by all means it is not, it is good but is it a great book....

Previously, from author Andrew Miller I read The Land in Winter (2024) and that book, oh I loved so much. And since that reading was such a delight, pleasure, for me, I purcahsed also his book Oxygen, first published 2001, and since reading the two, I say, Miller nowadays, in The Land in Winter, appealed to my liking more that the book, ...

I think I will not get enough Fosse. (As I will never get enough Pirkko Saisio. Somehow these are getting tangeled in my brains, these two masters, their voices, but what the heck, let it be so).

Pirkko Saisio: Pienin yhteinen jaettava, Vastavalo, Punainen erokirja.

klassikko, onneksi luettavan mittainen

Colombe Schneck: The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories.

Petra Forsten: Kadonneet tytöt. 2022. WSOY

Eeva Joenpelto: Kivi palaa. 1953. WSOY

Claire Lynch: A Family Matter. 2025

Lina Wolff: Lihan aika. Otava. 2025. Suomentaja Sirkka-Liisa Sjöblom

when you get fooled by the title

Juha Seppälä: Lähtösavut. 1993. WSOY

Kristiina Wallin: Laituri. 2026. S&S

Tekee hyvää lukea runoja. Pentti Saaritsan lisäksi luin Katja Seudun Runoilijan veisun, mutta koska itselleni on vaikea kirjoittaa runoista, kirjoitan vain Saaritsasta (jolloin vältä tällä päätölsellä toisesta kirjoittamisen. Näin vaikeaa se on.)

kun vapaudenkaipuuta koetellaan

there ´s a dinner party tonight!

Olivia Laing: The Silver Book.

jännitysnäytelmä kodin valtarakennelmissa