Book reviews; written in the dark
Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel. For readers who enjoyed Orbital by Samantha Harvey but still want to have a reading journey that exists in its own category. … Continue readingBook Review: Event Horizon by Balsam Karam – There is No Protagonist Without the Mothers
The list of books I have read in July, August and September of 2025. Intense reading months: grief, sapphic romance, fantasy and much more. … Continue readingMy Late Summer Reads of 2025
Korean Literature at its Finest with Brilliant Translation. The Age of Doubt is a collection of short stories from the Korean author Pak Kyongni. Her work mostly focused on the postwar period of the Korean War and the Japanese colonisation era. … Continue readingKorean Literature at its Finest with Brilliant Translation – The Age of Doubt by Pak Kyongni Review
This year’s Nobel Laureate in Literature is the South Korean author Han Kang. Important conversations about the fragility of human condition. … Continue readingNobel Prize in Literature 2024: Han Kang, South Korean Author
The International Booker Prize longlisted; Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan review in a form of a personal reading journal. Weird, disturbing and dystopian. … Continue readingWhale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan #1
“Reading Launch Something! was like watching an entertaining and well-researched sci-fi movie. Just funnier.” A review on Launch Something! … Continue readingLaunch Something! by Bae Myung-Hoon Review
“Violets pulled up some deeply hidden childhood trauma in me, which now has the chance to heal itself.” A review on Kyung-Sook Shin’s novel Violets. … Continue readingViolets by Kyung-Sook Shin Review
Book Review about the South-Korean bestseller; i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki from Baek Sehee and translated by Anton Hur.
“Extremes are hard to fight. Good and Bad are such strong concepts that it is hard to see the full spectrum of ourselves.”
… Continue readingi want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki by Baek Sehee and translated by Anton Hur 🥘☀︎BOOK REVIEW☀︎🥘
‘The village became this pulsating united entity of horrors.’ Book Review about the Hungarian author Nádas Péter’s novel; Rémtörténetek. … Continue readingRémtörténetek by Nádas Péter *Book Review*