2021 reading summary

It’s hard to believe that I started this post in the first week of January, and here we are at the end of 2021, the final weeks of December, and another year around the corner. I will admit, I did worse than I thought I would but, with the mild literary burnout from last year,

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami

Half way through this book I decided to look through some reviews, something you should maybe do either at the start or finish but, here we are. And though there were many positive ones, some were negative, commenting on the strange writing style, or the at times uncomfortable themes which are presented in the text

Book Your Summer – Literally

This summer, escape through fiction! Travelling anywhere at the minute is not exactly the easiest, or even advisable, but with book sales coming up (and with enough searching, a bargain can always be found) why not pick up a new book to journey with to another time, place, or even memory. As Waterstones called it,

2019 reading summary

It’s the end of the year and time again to summarize my reading from the year. I have to say I had hefty plans at the start of the year and it’s interesting to look back on everything I picked up and managed to get through. For many years now, I’ve set myself a reading

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

After I finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, I told myself that I was going to take a well deserved break from Murakami books. And I’m not entirely if nine books between then and now was the break I was going for but here we are. I have to say that Killing Commendatore was definitely easier