Category: Books
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[Books] The Beautiful and Damned – Scott F. Fitzgerarld
I bought ‘The Beautiful and Damned‘ just because I remembered that I enjoyed somewhere in high-school ‘The great Gatsby’. The introduction said that the action happens in the same era, so I said why not. I didn’t have too many expectations from this book, I imagined I would enjoy reading it, but in the end…
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[Books] The Story of My Baldness – Arnon Grunberg
The title of this book made me laugh, the first time I heard about it. Then I read that ‘The story of my baldness‘ written by Arnon Grunberg, was banned in the Netherlands for quite some time and so it got to my attention even more. And here I am, buying the book and finishing…
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[Books] The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
After more than a month of continuous reading, I finally managed last night to read the last 50 pages of Haruki Murakami’s book ‘The Wind-up Bird Chronicle’. Being a big fan of Murakami I’ve now arrived at reading 8 of his books in the last three years. I am so used to his style, but…
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[Books] Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
I’ve begun reading “ Steinbeck – A Life in Letters”. As you might imagine it is not your everyday book. It is a collection of 850 letters.
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[Books] What is the What – Dave Eggers
It happens often that I read a book and it impresses me, but it rarely happens that I read a book and it just reveals in me a kind of sensibility bringing me sometimes to tears. It might sound corny, but it was the case with Dave Egger‘s What is the What.
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[Books] Life of 3.14159
I love reading. It is not only that I enjoy a good book from time to time, but rather I cannot live my life without reading. I am fully aware that I am not special in my feeling this way and that this is far from being an original thought, yet the truth, however unoriginal…
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[Books] Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
I just finished reading Catch -22 by Joseph Heller and I found it simply delicious. Definitely on top 5 of the books I read this year. Yossarian and his attempts to escape the army and the war made this book a true masterpiece.
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[Books] Haruki Murakami – Sputnik Sweetheart
I just finished reading another Murakami book. This time it was Sputnik Sweetheart. Definitely the Haruki Murakami style this time as well. It’s a book about love, about friendship and relationships, but it’s also, a book where abnormal things happen, where people double themselves and live their lives from different perspectives.
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[Books] Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
If I think about the books that I enjoyed the most, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex is definitely on my top 5. It’s one of those books that got my attention from the first rows and that I enjoyed until I finished reading all the 600 pages. It starts like this : “I was born twice: first,…
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[Books] Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
After some long time of reading Asian literature, I came across a really good African book that I am about to finish. Disgrace written by the South African J.M. Coetzee. It’s a book about the a middle-aged professor who manages to ruin his life and the lives of the ones around him, get’s kicked from…
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[Books] Everything is Illumiated – Jonathan Safran Foer
I read this book Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer somewhere at the beginning of this year and I found it simply delicious. It has everything a book should have : humour, adventures, suspense, love, friendship. I enjoyed the subject (a young man from America goes to Ukraine in search of the woman who…
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Summer Readings
Publishersweekley.com posted a list of nice books to read this summer. You can find the list here. Enjoy your summer and enjoy reading!
The Chocolates Of Life 