Dreamings and musings

I finished reading Intermezzo quite some time ago. Storygraph reliably informs me I finished reading on the 5th of March, more than 10 week...

I usually read two or more books at the same time, generally at least one fiction and one non-fiction. This means I can switch out books acc...

Once upon a time I started the year by reading the Booker winner (I still can't get used to leaving the 'Man' out) of the previo...

Well, sharing my love for Storygraph  was the last thing I posted about books here... Funny how that works, as with finishing a book on Stor...

Early last year, I finally caved and created a Goodreads account. At the time, I thought I would find many likeminded readers there, especia...

Astonish Me  is the third book I read by Maggie Shipstead. After the joy of reading Great Circle , which quickly became my favourite book of...

In my overview of books I read in 2023 I mentioned that I might be reading the best book I would read all year at the turn of the year agai...

Yes, it is that time of the year again! Looking back on all I have read this year and planning ahead for my 2024 reads. Last year around thi...

Andy Weir fits onto a very small list of people who understand science, who really get things most of us cannot ever expect to fully compreh...

So Eleanor Catton's second novel has been out for a while now, but I refrained from reading it just yet. I'd gifted it to a couple o...

Shuggie Bain bookends my October this year; I started reading it on October 1st and finished just now, with just a couple of hours left in ...

Somehow, I've been reading a lot of Irish writers lately. Not just Sally Rooney, but also Anna Burns, Claire Keegan, and now Louise Kenn...

After all the great reviews I'd read about Small Things Like These , it turned out to be my biggest disappointment of 2022 . However, Cl...

The nice thing about GoodReads is that it stores all kinds of data about the books you read. For example, the date on which you finished rea...

As I mentioned somewhere before, I joined the local library as my new year's resolution. This would give me the opportunity, I thought, ...