The Man in the Yellow Suit – Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Mysteries is a novel about Johan Nagel, a man who suddenly lives in a small Norwegian town and who gets the townspeople going with his eccentric…
Read articleA Hundred Feelings – Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is the second collection of poetry published by the Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. The poems in this collection…
Read article6 Months, 3 Books, 1 Drum – The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
The Tin Drum is the first book in the Danzig Trilogy. It tells us the story of Oskar Matzerath with reminiscences from his birth up to…
Read articleA Quiet Lullabye – The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness
The Fish Can Sing is the coming-of-age tale of Alfgrimur Hansson, a boy orphaned since birth and left to the care of grandparents unrelated to him.…
Read articleWhy do you hate the South? – Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
It is not without trepidation that I returned to reading Faulkner just a couple of months back. I say trepidation because I know how mad and…
Read articleBelt, window, nut, rope – The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller
Christmas Party 2011. I wished for this book. Bookish little buddy bought this book and will give it to me if the person who picked my…
Read articleWill the real murdering miniaturist please stand up? – My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
A surprise gift from my bookish little buddy last Christmas, My Name Is Red took me by surprise as much as it did when it landed…
Read articleOne book to match all those shades of grey – The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
What really made me pick this book is the great divide between those who love it and those who hate it to bone. A couple of…
Read articleHappiness in Hatred – Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
Recently, some of my bookish friends did a group read of The Catcher in the Rye, that novel where we read about the 17-year-old Holden. Just…
Read articleAn attempt to review a play – Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
I do not know what to make out of this, and yet, my goal to write something for every book that I read that would at…
Read articleThe Jalopy of the Joads – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Let me tell you why this book is important to me. Let me tell you first how I came upon my copy. When I first attended…
Read articleJesus Christ is just another man – The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
A retelling of Jesus Christ’s life not as the holiest man in the universe but as a man, an everyday man, who is reluctant to take…
Read articleThere isn’t always a reason behind the things that we do – The Stranger by Albert Camus
I seriously don’t know what to say about this book, so this is going to be one of those nonreviews where I babble incoherent stuff that…
Read articleOf sheep, lungworm, coffee, and poetry, and God, and a lot, lot more – Independent People by Halldór Laxness
For some time now, I’ve been itching to write something about this wonderful, funny, lyrical, all-encompassing book. And now that I have a few moments to…
Read articleProbably the book that best describes me – Hunger by Knut Hamsun
I really can’t help raving about this. I always thank my lucky stars for that day when I bought this at a secondhand book store without…
Read articleYou do not memorize the family tree – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
You can, if you want to. Most editions have a family tree, or even all editions, maybe. But it doesn’t matter, or rather there’s no need…
Read articleThe Noble Nobel Project
The Nobel Prize in Literature is the highest award that a writer may aspire in his lifetime. Unlike the Pulitzers, the Bookers, and others, this is…
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