I wouldn't say that this book was a disappointment to me. However, I have to admit that I expected more from it, and I wasn't given it, sadly. Maybe I thought that there would be more magical realism there. Something like "The Familiars" by Stacey Halls, you know. Maybe I expected, from the Wikipedia description, … Continue reading “The Essex Serpent” by Sarah Perry
Tag: General Fiction
“Prodigal Summer” by Barbara Kingsolver
It's almost incredible, to read another book by an author and to know at once that, yes, it was worth to return to that writer. Barbara Kingsolver is one of them. Prodigal Summer is, after a way, similar to Flight Behaviour. Here and there, we get a story of unwealthy white people from American South. … Continue reading “Prodigal Summer” by Barbara Kingsolver
Once Authors didn’t make PoCs out of Important Historical Figures? đ
You haven't read The General in His Labyrinth, then. Because in this novel published 1989 by Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez, SimĂłn BolĂvar is literally Black. You know, that guy who was a Latinx Washington and after whom the whole country was named. Is Black. In MĂĄrquez's novel. Brace yourselves because I have a Spanish version, not … Continue reading Once Authors didn’t make PoCs out of Important Historical Figures? đ
Literature as the Mirror of Author’s Time: The Foundling by Stacey Hall
Trigger warning: SPOILERS Set in the middle of eighteenth century in London, The Foundling is a book about a poor girl forced to have renounced her child. Step by step, we discover not only what has happened to the child but also to the woman, that other, who fostered it. We also learn of things … Continue reading Literature as the Mirror of Author’s Time: The Foundling by Stacey Hall
My Year with Jane Austen
It took me a year to read the works Jane Austen had completed. Maybe it was because they were collected in a doorstopper of a book, or maybe I needed time because at first, it wasn't an easy journey for me. Reading Sense and Sensibility, I thought that the style was deft and that the … Continue reading My Year with Jane Austen
Literature as the Mirror of Author’s Time: Kristin Lavransdatter
WARNING: Huge spoilers on an old boring book by a Noble-prize winner I wasn't sure how to start this essay. I wasn't sure whether to mention and describe our assumptions about the historical literature of the (broadly understood) past. Eventually, I decided to not reflect on it. Because it's a fact, not an opinion, that … Continue reading Literature as the Mirror of Author’s Time: Kristin Lavransdatter
The Complex World of Barbara Kingsolver
WARNING: Lots of spoilers included Usually, I don't read a lot of general fiction in English. General fiction is something special to me, something which should be chosen meticulously. And soâexcept for the classicsâthis kind of books in their original language do not take a lot of place on my bookshelves. The case of me … Continue reading The Complex World of Barbara Kingsolver
Why You Should Care About âKristin Lavransdatterâ even if You Disagree with the Author
As much as I am angry about all the puritanism in Robin Hobb's books, I accept the notion of sin in Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. I accept the strong religiosity of its characters and all the deliberation about guilt and grace. Why have I ever come to it although it's not my cup of … Continue reading Why You Should Care About âKristin Lavransdatterâ even if You Disagree with the Author
Why I Stopped Reading the âOutlanderâ Series in the Middle of It
It's time for yet another one anti-review, I'm afraid. Maybe it's just me; I like writing about things I dislike or I disagree about. So, supposedly you've heard about a wanna-be-doctor Claire Randall who travels in time to the eighteenth-century Scotland and meets the local god of sex Jaime Fraser, haven't you? You must have … Continue reading Why I Stopped Reading the âOutlanderâ Series in the Middle of It
Why I Stopped Reading Santa Montefiore on Two Books (or Rather, Why I Will Always Return to Victoria Hislop)
Or maybe, one thing about the hidden neo-colonialism of our culture? Reading A Room with a View can explain us, I think, an Anglosphere phenomenon. It's the phenomenon of the people born into relatively influential and wealthy countries fascinated with the countries more âexoticâ and less influential at once. Fascinated to such an extent that … Continue reading Why I Stopped Reading Santa Montefiore on Two Books (or Rather, Why I Will Always Return to Victoria Hislop)
Left Hand of Fiction 