This was quite a strange and unsettling read. I am not a sensitive reader, but this was about as much as I could take: a child killing a kitten, abusing and nearly killing a mentally challenged child, a child murdering another child. I was shocked, but at the same timeI had to disentangle the story …
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Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
This is a novel firstly about women. In the recent years we have been talking so much about what it means to be a woman, but we seem to be omitting the important parts, the hidden parts, the uncomfortable parts. The things not usually talked about – openly. About periods, breasts, bodies, sex, eggs (here …
Luster by Raven Leilani
A book I was expecting to love, a book I started loving as I started reading it and a book I ended up very disappointed with. There isn’t a greater disappointment for a reader than a book that starts strongly and ends up leaving you indifferent. Luster, a very anticipated debut of 2020 that ended …
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Isn’t it such a shame when a book starts off wonderfully: interesting, dynamic, original, just to continue and end in a completely different tone. By the end How Much of These Hills Is Gold lost all of its novelty and freshness. It turned into unskillfully written chapters filled with incredibility and tackiness. The main thread …
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If We Were Villains or How Shakespeare Can Ruin Your Life
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” There are books and there are books. Some books have perfect style, bring something new to literature or describe the current modern era. There are books that are fun, soothing or just a good choice for our mood at the moment. But there are also …
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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Is it at all possible to say that real life is too tragic? That anything in real life can be too tragic? That there can be too much tragedy? Not at all, because life is too often too tragic. However, fiction can be too tragic because fiction (although it can be based on real life …
Elena Ferrante, Lažljivi život odraslih / The Lying Life of Adults
Scroll down for English Ferrante počinje uobičajeno žestoko, udarcem šake u glavu, direktno, beskompromisno uvodi nas u vrtlog svog pripovijedanja. Tijekom romana stalno se isprepliću i smjenjuju razni trenutni pokretači radnje: ljepota, obiteljska sličnost, laži, tajne, misteriozna teta Vittoria, narukvica, idealni Roberto. Cijeli roman vrtlog je zbivanja i nadasve vrtlog emocija koji povremeno prerasta u uragan. …
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I Give It to You by Valerie Martin
Why do people choose to write, discuss, investigate, study historical periods, times and places unconnected to themselves and to their own heritage, history, country and continent they come from? Why would an Italian have to be annoyed with an American writing about Mussolini decades after World War II? Actually, there shouldn’t be a reason. I, …
Hiromi Kawakami, Profesorova tašna / Strange Weather in Tokio
Scroll down for English Neobična i neuobičajena ljubavna priča između umirovljenog srednjoškolskog profesora i njegove bivše učenice. Zapravo i sama definicija ljubavne priče odgađa se skoro za sami kraj. Pripovijedanje trideset osmogodišnje Tsukiko u prvom licu polako nas vodi kroz uobičajene i neuobičajene događaje, njihova susretanja, piće, jelo, svakodnevicu, njezine neodlučne osjećaje, pa sve do …
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Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
What is the difference between the pornographic and the erotic? It is a question to ponder on, but after reading this novel the answer is obvious: art. Every world that comes out of Greenwell is indeed that: art. This novel consists of three parts and nine stories, it could be considered as a short story …
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