Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in July:
Literary Escapades
English book reviews, literary essays and author portraits.
An Introduction to Estonian Literature, 3: Jaan Kross
Today’s introduction is to a paramount Estonian writer, Jaan Kross. He is the most translated and nationally and internationally best-known Estonian writer, even having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Literary Escapades. Annie Proulx: ‚Barkskins‘
American author Annie Proulx is best known for her short story Brokeback Mountain (1997) and novel The Shipping News (1993), both of which have been adapted and received additional acclaim on the silver screen respectively. Barkskins (2016) is her newest and arguably most ambitious novel, reaching over 700 pages.
Literary Escapades. Monthly Reviews, 6/2020
Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book.
Here’s what I read in June:
‚Little Fires Everyhwere‘: A unique adaptation from book to series
Celeste Ng’s novel Little Fires Everywhere (2017) is an in-depth study on the darker aspects of female and maternal psychology. The novel has been adapted into a miniseries recently, so let’s compare and contrast.
Literary Escapades. Cormac McCarthy: ‚No Country for Old Men‘
American author Cormac McCarthy has written ten novels, a handful of short stories and a few screenplays. Most, if not all of them include rather graphic and lengthy scenes and plots of violence, morose antagonists and an impending sense of… Weiterlesen ›
Literary Escapades. Monthly Reviews, 4/2020
Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in April:
Literary Escapades. Monthly Reviews, 3/2020
Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in March:
On Passion and Nature: Rediscovering D. H. Lawrence
„Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.“ English playwrite, novelist, rule-breaker and subject of numerous controversies, D. H. Lawrence died on March 2nd 1930. On the occasion of his recent death day… Weiterlesen ›
Literary Escapades. Monthly Reviews, 2/20
Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in February:
Literary Escapades. Monthly Reviews, 1/20
Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in January:
Literary Escapades. Best of 2019
2019 was quite the satisfying reading year. I had the pleasure to experience a good mixture of classics and contemporaries, European and World literature, short and sweet and long and complex reads. Here are my best reads from 2019 in… Weiterlesen ›
Literary Escapades, 12/19: December Reviews
Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in December:
