Τitle: Vom Schicksal Das sich Wendet (Märchen von Freiheit und Glück) Writer: Otto Betz Publishing House: Kösel Date of Publication: 1987 Rating: 5 stars *All quotes and titles translated by me. Taken from the Greek edition.* ‘’Is the course of our fate irreversibly defined from the very start? Can we do nothing to fight against blind destiny, or are…
Month: November 2018
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Title: Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall Writer: Anna Funder Publishing House: Granta Books (UK) Date of Publication: June 9th 2003 Rating: 5 stars *Any political comments will receive the axe. Don’t try to provoke me, you’ll fail miserably.* ‘’Peter Fechter, the eighteen-year- old shot trying to escape in 1962 and left to die on the death strip, because…
Girl At War
Title: Girl At War Writer: Sara Nović Publishing House: Random House Date of Publication: May 12th 2015 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Of course we want to go back. Of course we’re going home.’’ Home…Where is this ‘’home’’ when the land where you’ve spent all your life is about to witness violence, desolation, and death? Where is this ‘’home’’ when the people…
Christmas Days
Title: Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days Writer: Jeanette Winterson Publishing House: Random House UK Date of Publication: November 1st 2018 (first published November 2016) Rating: 5 stars It’s Jeanette Winterson, people. I could read her shopping list and still be a happy reader. In Christmas Days we have her impeccable style and stories about Christmas. What could…
Owl Love You
Title: Owl Love You Writer: Matthew Heroux and illustrated by Wednesday Kirwan Publishing House: Cameron Kids Date of Publication: October 9th 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Hoo’ll make up a song and sing me a tune?’’ ‘’Owl serenade you by the light of the moon.’’ Mama owl wakes her little one for a nightly flight in the forest. She shows him…
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World
Title: Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story Writer: Debbie Tung Publishing House: Andrews McMeel Publishing Date of Publication: November 7th 2017 Rating: 5 stars Two weeks ago I read Book Love by Debbie Tung and I adored it. I couldn’t wait to read Quiet Girl in a Noisy World, a beautiful work of Art that…
Unquiet Women
Title: Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment Writer: Max Adams Publishing House: Head of Zeus Date of Publication: November 1st 2018 Rating: 4 stars ‘’Emerging from these themes is a conviction that history is polyphonic – that it must be told by many voices; that the ear must be…
The World According to Anna
Title:The World According to Anna Writer: Jostein Gaarder (translated by Don Bartlett) Publishing House: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Date of Publication: November 12th 2015 Rating: 4 stars ‘’Do you know what I want? Shall I tell you? I want a million plants and animals to come back from extinction. No more, no less, Nona. I want to drink clean water…
The Sing of the Shore
Title: The Sing of the Shore Writer: Lucy Wood Publishing House: 4th Estate Date of Publication: April 5th 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Winters are when people disappear. One minute you’re elbow on the street, the next you walk along sidestepping nothing but the wind. Cafes put down their blinds. Houses are locked and dark. The car parks slowly empty and…
Nocturnes
Title: Nocturnes Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro Publishing House: Faber and Faber Date of Publication: May 5th 2009 Rating: 5 stars ‘’So a moment like that comes as an unwelcome reminder of how quickly things change. How the bosom pals of today become lost strangers tomorrow, scattered across Europe, playing the Godfather theme or ‘Autumn Leaves’ in squares and cafes you’ll never…
ROAR
Title: ROAR Writer: Cecelia Ahern Publishing House: HarperCollins Date of Publication: November 1st 2018 Rating: 2 stars ‘’I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here.’’ 30 stories of 30 women. 30 captivating titles that lead us to the sphere of Magical Realism and allegories. 30 stories that aim to give voice to characters who struggle with issues that make our…
The Snow and The Sun (La Nieve y la Sol)
Title: The Snow and The Sun Writer: Antonio Frasconi Publishing House: Dover Publications Date of Publication: 17 Oct 2018 (first published June 28th 1961) Rating: 5 stars ‘’Snow that hurts my feet Why are you so bad? I am not bad; The Sun is bad That melts me.’’ Progressive poems have long been a vital part in the tradition of…
Literary Witches
Title: Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers Writer: Taisia Kitaiskaia, illustrated by Katy Horan and forwarded by Pam Grossman Publishing House: Seal Press Date of Publication: October 10th 2017 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Why would we dare call someone a Literary Witch? Because all artists are magicians, and Witches wield a special magic. Witches and women writers alike dwell…
Book Love
Title: Book Love Writer: Debbie Tung Publishing House: Andrews McMeel Publishing Date of Publication: January 1st 2019 Rating: 5 stars This lovely little treasure by Debbie Tung contains all those moments that make us readers such a wonderful, lively, thoughtful and sometimes excruciating (for the ones around us) beautifully obsessed bunch of people. For all those moments when we brought…
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