The Fox in the Dunes
Early this spring, on a Wednesday afternoon, we took a ride on our tandem through the dunes. It was a sunny day. Along the bike path, we unexpectedly saw a fox’s head under a bush. The white details of its…
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Little fires everywhere – Celeste Ng (2020)
In the prosperous American town of Shaker Heights, where an ideal society is pursued, 17-year-old student Izzy set fire to her family’s home. The house burned down, only the walls remained. According to her siblings, this wasn’t surprising because Izzy…
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
A short and surprising novel. According to the text on the cover of my book “a shocker”. The book has characteristics of a crime novel. In the second chapter the reader gets to know that Lise, the main character will…
Total reset
Last week we made one of the shortest bicycle trips we regularly make. Up the street, along a few speed bumps, past a busy crossing, and we are in the wood. It’s just a short distance from buildings to wood,…
Cold enough for snow – Jessica Au
The sentence: “It was strange at once to be so familiar yet so separated.” sums up this novel venry well.
A novel about family, art and language. A meditative novel without much of a story. The narrator alternates thoughts about the nature of life with memories, sparse conversations with her mother and phonecalls with her sister.
Read MoreTokyo Ueno Station – Yu Miri
A beautiful, unassuming book. The narrator Kazu lives in a camp for the homeless near Ueno station. He tells the story of his life. Born in the same year as emperor Hirohito he lived a humble life paralel to that of the emperor.
Read MoreThe woman in white – Wilkie Collins (1859)
Following two blogposts of literary British literary highlights from the 20th century. I like to pay attention to a mid 19th century successful crime novel. I read this book some years ago in December.
Read MoreA passage to India by E.M. Forster
This novel is one of my favourites, because of the splendid descriptions of nearly everything from the impressive landscape and natural surroundings, to the frequent social encounters of the many characters, which sometimes seem to lead to friendship but can also be awkward and then lead to awkward situations and to conflicts.
Read MoreSummer holidays
A friend recently asked me how I spend my summer holidays. The answer to that question is, that I spend most of the time, reading or drawing. But as I never spend a holiday alone, part of the time is…
Flowers on the roadside
Last winter I had planned to write in summer about the roadsides flowering abundantly by the bicycle routes we frequently take. Meanwhile, June is here, but the roadsides along the bicycle routes are bare, grass and vegetation cut short.
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