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“Elegance is saying just enough. And I do believe that the reader completes the story.” If that is true, Claire Keegan has to be the most...

Rarely do I sit down to type up my review with no idea how to begin. But first things first: I loved The Bee Sting. There is so much...

I am sad to report that this was quite a disappointing read for me. Not because it was bad but I had such high expectations and it just...

What are you? That’s the question you are asked by everyone from a young age. Because to a society that is built on a clear hierarchy of...

As Lilith Iyapo wakes up she knows this was not just a short nap, or even a full-night’s sleep. This was the birth-like experience she...

Christopher Banks’ life changes over night when shortly after his father’s disappearance his mother goes missing, too. In early twentieth...

I didn’t get around to starting the final book in Ali Smith’s quartet, Summer, until that season had almost come to an end. During these...

May, Christine, Heed, Junior and L – five women bound together by their obsession with one man. Bill Cosey was the owner of the famous...

Leigh grows up in Rotterdam, at 22 feet below sea level, and develops a fascination with the ocean from an early age. When she swims, she...

We are in the near future. The euro has, for reasons of simplicity, the same value it had in 2022, but everything else is exactly as it...

James Cahill’s debut novel Tiepolo Blue enjoyed quite a bit of excitement before its release. I picked it up after listening to a podcast...

“She thought of Antarctica, the snow and ice and the bodies of dead explorers. Then she thought of hell, and then eternity.” Just before...

Alice Walker’s modern classic The Color Purple portrays the lives and struggles of African American women in the last century, marked by...

English version below Till Kokorda ist fehl am Platz. Das elitäre, private Halbinternat, das er besucht, ist voll von Kinder, die mehr...

The Bell Jar is one of those books that has been sitting on my shelves for ages, that I have always wanted to have read but never ended...

“Once upon a time there were two boys who purposefully misremembered things about their father. It made them feel better if ever they...

Whether we like it or not, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives and social interactions. The technologies have...

It is May, still spring, I‘m sure, and I am ready to discuss the third instalment of Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet. This week, we have...

“The reason churches have so many doors is that people tend to leave churches in groups, in a hurry. It seems people have a lot of...

Set on a thousand acres of land is the Cook family’s farm, sternly ruled by patriarch Larry who teaches his daughters and their husbands...