book reviews

Can one’s trauma be as big as to manifest itself physically, garrotting, scalding, and destroying everyone around? What if the trauma is not real? What if nothing is real? Or if the real is nothing? When a family of four, in hopes of getting their lives together, moves into

Давно обещанные самой себе отзывы на романы последних двух десятилетий (или трех — все равно никто не вспомнит сколько лет назад были 90е), представителей классической школы современного русского постмодернизма и бла, бла, бла. Молодой образчик за несколько месяцев ферментированная на моих полках сложил впечатление, что он является антиутопией и никак иначе.

genre: #modern classics #mystery #historical first publication: 1988 my rating: 9/10 FILENAME: Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco (444 KB, 2:22 AM) Shh…, don't tell anyone. Incognito ergo sum (does it mean "Moonlight"?: * Nascosto fra la gente/Senza un'identità). "Did you know

genre: #contemporary #literary first publication: March 10, 2015 my rating: 7/10 dit dit dash dit dash dash dash dash dit dit dit dit Lying on a glacier going through the ocean of ordeal; chewing on broken glass; feeling the slow tightening of the rusty screws of emotions, which dissect

genre: #classics #historical first publication: 1965 my rating: 6.5/10 Yet another amphibolic book review, or Stoner by John Williams. The good. The main character. The complexity, the drama (which, in fact, is more of a tragedy), the emotions. The bad and the ugly. Murphy's law. The

genre: #contemporary #literary first publication: September 1, 2011 my rating: 9/10 A capite, mea culpa, I don't know what to start with. In the begging was the Word and my wish to read this book, so will start with that. The peak through the f-hole of an

genre: #contemporary #literary first publication: September 16, 1992, September 23, 2013 my rating: 10/10 Flawed in their plots, flawed in their execution, flawed in their characters and settings, yet Tartt's books are near perfection. Near the flawed and dark perfection. The therapeutic language guides the reader through

genre: #contemporary #literary first publication: October 5, 2021 my rating: 10/10 The talent of making ordinary things fascinating, or Jonathan Franzen and his genius. Writing about his characters and their ordinary lives, Franzen slowly, easily, perhaps, casually dissects the reader. He shows that he knows everything about you. Sentence