Reading is easy, but choosing the best of the books you have read is hard. In this trying year my choice will entail not only the books I thought were the best, most quality books, but books that felt soothing and helpful in stressful times as well. Before I start, here are some honourable mentions: …
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Sally Rooney, Razgovori s prijateljima
Frances je neobična, neuobičajena djevojka, nalazi se u stalnoj nelagodi sa samom sobom i nesigurna u to kakva je ona – zapravo. Ona klizi kroz sve svoje odnose, kroz odluke koje mora donijeti u životu, kroz odluke o vlastitom obrazovanju, poslu, novcu, ne odlučuje samo ide dalje. Studira, pjesniknja je i konstantno definira samu sebe …
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Frances is awkward, unusual, unsure of herself and of her character. She glides through her relationships with people, decisions in life, education, work, money. She is a university student, a poet and she defines herself by her constant relationship with her high school friend and former girlfriend Bobbi. Apparently “normal” and “usual”, she hides her …
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My Favourite Books of 2019
It’s always too hard to choose best of-s because there are many too many magnificent books read within a year. I just had to single out 15 out of 120 books I have read this year. So here they are chronologically as I have read them: 1 Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow A thing …
Sally Rooney, Normal People
Through her beautiful writing, Sally Rooney shows us both at the same time, the lightness of being and how troublesome nad awkward life is. Her style is light, it just flows, making the whole novel look as if that was the only possible way for all the events to play out, for the characters to …
A Literary Snob 