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My Favourite Books of 2022
The books that made my year.
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rage and melancholia: the virgin suicides
Last night I revisited a movie that left a deep yet vague impression in my teenage mind the first time I watched it, over 10 years ago: Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. I watched it because earlier in the week I read Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel on which the film is based for a class. The novel […]
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The World’s Loving Indifference: Mary Oliver’s Thousand Mornings
If I had to use a word to describe this book it would be ‘simplicity’. The poems in this collection celebrate nature and especially those aspects of it –birdsongs, water running, waves and wind, how our dogs welcome us home — that might escape our attention in everyday life.
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Ugly Truths: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
I first heard of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation it on Instagram. Everybody was talking about it, I saw pictures of the book everywhere. The reviews, however, were not all good: a masterpiece, a cheap piece of shock literature, a groundbreaking story, an immensely boring book… everybody had a different opinion […]
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The Many Conjurings of Piranesi
I can’t remember the last time I wrote about aa book herend that’s really sad, but life can get complicated. Fortunately I just read a book that forced me to talk about it. It was Piranesi by British author Susanna Clarke. This is not my first encounter ith the charms of Susanna Clarke’s fantasy. A […]
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Giving Pet Sematary a Second Chance
About four years ago I bought myself a copy of Pet Sematary. It was scary, everyone had told me, but not as scary as other novels by Stephen King. I intended to read it in October, since I always dedicate that month to scary books (that one and other months, I must admit), but when […]
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The Newness of Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf
I just read one of those books everybody reads in high school. Since I can remember being a reader and making reading lists, Steppenwolf has been on my radar; many people in several different places and contexts had recommended the book to me, and I can’t really say why it took me so long to […]
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What I’ve Been Reading
Ghosts and spirits, basically.
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Why Do We Remember?: Svetlana Alexievich’s History of the Soul
War’s Unwomanly Face and Voices from Chernobyl
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Flickers of Light: The Goldfinch
“A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help”
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Embracing Uncertainty: Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost
“It’s not about being lost but about trying to lose yourself”
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“Mad, bad and dangerous”: Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley’s Lives
Badass.