If you are looking for a dark fantasy novel filled with magic, ghosts, scary creatures, secrets and murder, look no further – this is the book for you. Slow paced, slowly revealing its characters, the surroundings, the plot and the whole dark academia setting. Slowly we get to know that universe that will hopefully come …
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Strange Secrets by Mike Russell
What do you consider as strange? Well, my answer to that question is – these stories, they come true to their title. This book is a collection of short stories consisting of seven very diverse stories. What makes them a whole is their weirdness, oddness and bizarreness. Sometimes they leave us without revealing the meaning, …
Domenico Starnone, Pertle
Čitajući ovaj roman i približavajući se njegovom kraju, samo mi je jedna Tolstojeva rečenica bila stalno na umu: „Sve sretne obitelji nalik su jedna na drugu, svaka nesretna obitelj nesretna je na svoj način.“ U vrlo zanimljivom i dinamičnom romanu koji se čita u dahu, Starnone nas od početka priprema za ono što ćemo otkriti …
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing / Djevojka iz močvare
SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH Kada se nešto čini kao da je predobro da bi bilo istinito, ono to obično i jest. Što je slučaj s ovom previše voljenom, obožavanom knjigom, za koju je moguće pročitati većinom I skoro isključivo pozitivne recenzije i hvale, nerijetko govoreći kako je čitaocima promijenila život. Čitajući o ovoj knjizi bila …
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Elena Ferrante, Mračna kći
Nimalo začuđujuće, već poslovično dobra, Elena Ferrante nudi nam još jedan u nizu maestralan roman. Iako kronološki prethodi Napolitanskoj tetralogiji, nimalo ne zaostaje za njom, a kao i kroz sve njezine romane protežu se isti ili slični motivi. Prekrasnim stilom i žestokom analizom likova, Ferrante, još jednom, pogađa u sridu. „Jezik za mene sadrži nekakav …
Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold
This is a work of very new and refreshing narration and shows a completely different point of view. The whole novel is an exploration of meaning, making us connect the dots, making us try to decipher a disturbed mind, sucking us in it, making us try to understand the way a different consciousness than ours …
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
Advertised as the modern day Odyssey, I did not wait waste my time and I picked up this novel right away, but after reading pages and pages I could not find neither Odysseus, nor the Trojan war. It was only – mentioned in the text. There was Odysseus, there was Penelope, but not much to …
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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
And thirty five years later, we know how it ended. Or do we? We know how Gilead ended but we are missing what we (or at least I) have been expecting. What exactly happened to June, immediately after the ending of The Handmaid’s Tale. That seems to be the general feeling I had reading this …
Ljudmila Ulicka na FSK u Zagrebu i “Jakovljeve ljestve”
Kada se osoba i djelo spajaju na najbolji način, kada se pozitivistički način tumačenja književnog djela pokaže jedini ispravan i moguć, kada se djelo i autor nadopunjuju i prožimlju međusobno neodvojivi, jasno je da je pogledati izvan samog djela, u autora, bio dobar odabir. Točno takav bio je susret s Ljudmilom Ulickom na Festivalu svjetske …
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John Lanchester, The Wall
A dystopian novel, taking place in our possible near(ish) future, describes the life of a Defender. The idea seems interesting, in theory, specially because I always enjoy a good dystopia, but in the end it wasn’t. The pace is very slow, at times boring. The premises of that new society are there, interesting, but that …
A Literary Snob 