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Come Close
It’s me and poetry again. I was quite looking forward to Sappho. While I hadn’t read any of her poetry before, I was curious since it was a name I had heard a lot. Also, it is so rare that it has survived so long and that it was passed down through time to us.… →
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The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
When Evelyn Hardcastle started to be the talk of my online book club, I was feeling guilty. It received multiple 5 star rating, and it had been unread on my shelves for the last two years even though I was intrigued a lot by the 7.5 deaths in the title. But I totally get the… →
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The Fall of Icarus
I liked the myths that were included in this collection – much more than just the Fall of Icarus. The particular edition however is rather random as the stories follow each other, which made me wonder exactly who this collection was aiming for as an audience? It might confuse people who hear the stories for… →
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Miss Brill
A woman sits in a park listening to the conversations of passersby and imagining the rest of their lives, all the while feeling better than them and looking down on them. A pure form of loneliness, and even worse, she doesn’t realize that the other people consider her the strange woman who talks to herself.… →
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The Muse of History
#TimeTravelTuesday This short story from The Chronicles of St Mary’s is one of the few good things to come out of the quarantine. You can read it for free at Jodi Taylor’s blog (click here). It was very short but with all the humor and spirit that I really enjoy in the series. How the… →
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The Girl With All the Gifts
During the corona lockdown there are two types of readers. Those who want to indulge in end of the world stories (possibly caused by some sort of pathogen) and those who want to stay away from them as far as possible. Me, I don’t mind reading them even now. Still, it was mainly because I… →
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Circe and the Cyclops
I think it is great that stories like the Odyssey have survived for this long and are still so well known. The pieces about the Cyclops and Circe are among the best known parts I think. I read these in class but it was a couple of years ago, so it nice to revisit. I… →
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The Night Circus
Why have I never read The Night Circus before? I’m officially way too late to the party. I remember everyone raving about The Night Circus some time ago, but never got around to reading it myself somehow. Only now, with reawakened interested due to the release of The Starless Sea, I was reminded that I… →
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I Love and I Hate
We didn’t read this in school, so it was the first of Catullus that I read. It’s another poetry collection. The title sums up quite well the problems that Catullus faces with the woman he loves, since it is clear that love and hate are not so different after all. While the poems feel rather… →
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Daisy Jones & The Six
Three little things loosely related to Daisy Jones & The Six: * I don’t think there is book that I have had in my hands so many times before actually buying it (the Kindle edition that is) as this one. There always was a pull towards it, but it never seemed hard enough. I’m very… →
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The Robber Bridegroom
This was an interesting edition, which featured some well-known and some lesser known fairy tales from the Grimm Brothers. The titular story tells of a young girl who finds out her intended is not all that great and figures out a way to defeat him. Another one, the six servants, I only knew from the… →
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Bloodchild
Bloodchild was my introduction to the works of Octavia E. Butler. After I was recently told I should really try her books, I came across this short story which has won all the prizes and was free on Amazon. Since it was short, I immediately squirmed it in with my other readings. Two things that… →
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It was snowing butterflies
I have never read On the Origin of Species. However, I was glad that some of Darwin’s writing had made the Little Black Classics. These are a part of his notes that he took while on Beagle trying to prove the evolution theory. As such it provides not only biology, but also remarks on exploring… →
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
I had not heard of Kate Chopin before I started reading this. A Pair of Silk Stockings contains five short stories and overall it was a really nice read. That’s what I have been reading these little books for, finding new-to-me authors. In the title story, a woman has 15 dollars to spend on nice… →
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The Congress of Rough Riders
I’m a big fan of John Boyne, and this was one of the last books I hadn’t read yet. So, I didn’t mind the fact I really don’t like cowboys and just started reading. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed cause it turned out that I minded the cowboys after all. It was not bad,… →
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The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe
This was horrible! One of the worst in the collection, of that I am sure. When reading historical accounts it is always difficult, because their actions have to be put in the historical context rather than how we would judge these actions today. However, The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe, is… →
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When A Child Is Born
#TimeTravelTuesday When A Child Is Born takes place on Christmas (though it is not that child that is born). Max and her team end up being sidetracked while they are hiking towards William I’s coronation. It’s short and sweet and it fits perfectly in the holiday season. While I enjoyed it thoroughly, all 20 or… →
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The Night is Darkening Round Me
My first venture into the works of the Brontë sisters contains poems by Emily, although it says that one of the poems included is now rather assigned to Charlotte. These poems are very dark. Death is the one recurring theme. As such it feels very 19th Century, but it didn’t make for very enjoyable reading.… →
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Manga Classics – Anne of Green Gables
I have memories of watching some kind of screen adaptation (I don’t remember exactly which one) of Anne of Green Gables when I was a kid. I haven’t seen Netflix’s Anne with an E and neither have I read the original book. But I have been following Manga Classics for a while, so when I… →
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Lips Too Chilled
Poetry has always been somewhat of a hit or miss with me. Lips Too Chilled collects Haiku, and I am not really experienced reading them. So, maybe that is why I quite liked these, some were very nice in their short simplicity. I am usually not one for the very strict formats that different poem-styles… →
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Djinn City
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (find the review here) was my first book this year and it was such a nice surprise. After I finished it, I wanted to get Djinn City, since it was also set in the same world with the Djinn, although a millennium earlier. It was quest to get… →
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