“… in a truly honest relationship one can‘t pick and choose what will be known and what will be kept a secret.”

Who said commute can‘t be pleasurable? With a companion like this it‘s a special treat. The author‘s language is sharp and vivid, it cuts as well as portrays. It is very interesting to read her perception of Russia and Siberia in particular. She gives the latter the magic and the recognition it deserves.

Found this gem in the local library and had a magical carpet ride into Oman. The way the author blends the mundane and the magical is outstanding. I love how the narrative is given to different characters and you get to know them from the way they think and live. History comes alive through family stories of several generations. Simply brilliant.

‘Now she saw only the circle of stars. They were like the luminous tips of weapons aimed down at her. A shower of meteors crossed her patch of night. The meteors seemed to her like a warning, like tiger stripes, like luminous grave slats clabbering her blood.‘ Disappointed by the movie, I went back to the book. It reads so differently now from when I read it in my teens. The language is so vivid and the story line wasn‘t done justice by the movie.

December reading pile
Looking forward to quiet evenings with a cup of a tea and a book 📚

Poetic, thought-provoking and deeply beautiful ❤️

“You don‘t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
“She was a volcano. (…) She‘d have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.”