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…)

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.