Remeber yesterday’s challenge? Well, this is the first review I’m publishing, with high hopes of turning this intro a weekly habit.
“On Beauty” is the type of book that you start reading, just to get a feel of it, and wake up 100 pages later. It intrigues you, it saddens you to tears, it makes you [...]

Last week, while browsing the blogosphere, I found an interesting post on a very catchy challenge, at least for me. Reading one book every week. That would be 50 to 100 pages per day. Unfortunately I can’t share the post, as copy-pasting the link into an unsaved notepad and then having Vista crash and restart [...]

Loredana has tagged me a while ago to tell you what books I’ve been reading. Given that I haven’t managed to finish a book in weeks (too busy, too tired and other excuses), I will tell you what books I’m trying to read these days
I’ve read through about half of Mircea Cartarescu [...]

Whenever I read the first part of Mircea Cartarescu’s trilogy “Orbitor” (translated as Glaring on Wikipedia, but I’m not sure how good a translation it is or how strong the “blinding” aspect is), something weird happens. It almost feels like Aripa Stanga - the Left Wing - has some magical powers.
The first time I read [...]

There’s been much said about Orhan Pamuk’s Nobel prize winning novel, “My Name is Red”. Therefore I’ll keep this post short. I strongly recommend you to read it, along with The New Life or The White Castle. His is a quite unique style, especially in this novel where the story is revealed from so many [...]