Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart

Oksana Vasjakina: Ruusu. 2026. Otava. Suomentanut Riku Toivola

A year ago we purchased an old house in a very tiny rural village. The house and the annex need a lot of work - and after a year, they still do since there still are a lot of untouched corners, rooms, walls, floors, ceilings- but, there also is a garden attached to the house. It is a sheltered...

i wanted to help her, them, the whole time but there was nothing to be done…

Sabine Forsblom: Betinka. 2018. S&S. Suomentaneet Laura Kulmala ja Helene Butzow.

when there is life, a pen, and writing letters

kun kaveri on isän ammatti, luokkaeroista, lapsuudesta ja sokerista ja televisiosta

In Pachinko Parlour I get to go to Tokyo, Japan.

Philippe Besson: Summerboy. 2026

Gwendoline Riley: The Palm House

Jean- Philippe Blondel: Exposed

So far all I have read from Rachel Cusk has left me in understanding that this, text, Cusk, she know hernbusiness, the thinking, the writing of the thoughts the perceptions. I have loved her trilogy, her Parade, her novels and of course this, Aftermath, I bought, too, because of Cusk and because of divorce.

Leena Lander: Käsky. 2003. WSOY

O ´Donnell is an Irish author and also the setting in her book is in Dublin and also on the other side of the water, Sheffield.

Mavis Gallant: Green Water, Green Sky. 1959.

Here, in Giovanni ´s room we get to read about love, sexuality, the hidden sex, the hidden love. Also, both of them were in a tight form, well under 200 pages and that, too, appeals to me. And all of those pages, they, and deliver such powerful lines. But in Giovanni ´s Room Baldwin shows his master...

Wilhelmiina Palonen: 206 pientä osaa

Lina Wolff: Ruumiit, jotka hautasimme.

Elizabeth Strout: The things we never say.

Anthony Shapland: A Rooma above a Shop. 2025. Granta

(which can be bought as a one unit as well, this The Elements).

Ja jo menomatkalla laivalla on Björn, outo mörrikkä, jonka kanssa, jonka kautta, jota odottaen tyttö viettää aikansa, vuotensa saaressa. Ja on entinen rakastettu, mantereella, nyt jo lasta samassa toisen kanssa menossaa naimisiin ja saarella on piväkoti, saaren karu elämisen muto, varusmiehet, siilitukkaiset.

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…)