books

Why I love the way Ernaux writes about desire

I'm officially kicking off Austen Autumn!

I want to share more of my thoughts about the books I read.

I'm still making my way through Knausgård's Autumn

I've started reading Karl Ove Knausgård's Autumn . It's written as a series of tender letters to his soon-to-be-born daughter. He wants to d...

Yesterday, I finished Sólrún Michelsen's On the Other Side is March . It is about a Faroese woman in her sixties who is caring for her ailin...

"When you create things you become alive. When you create beautiful things, you don’t want to die. You don’t think about death. You think ab...

Making my way through the World of Peter Rabbit books! Beatrix Potter's drawings are so beautiful. I need very gentle and comforting things ...

Nan Shepherd My favorite quotes from Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain , her exquisite book about the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland: No, ...