I read a lot of books. About 127 a year. You can see all my reviews on Goodreads – and my ten latest reads at the buttom of this page.
Reading the World
I decided to broaden my reading horizons, I plotted on a map, Africa was all unread lands, one thing led to another, and well… Here is my world reading so far:
Latest reads & reviews
Anetq’s bookshelf: read
Crime Fiction in Ghana – from the Modern city of Accra to the bush town of his mother’s family, Darko is hunting the murderer of AIDS-activist and doctor-to-be Grace.
It is an interesting setup and has the local spice of our detective an…
En sær historie ligesom hendes andre. Ikke helt så fængende som de andre to jeg har læst (Ar & Stiklingen) måske fordi jeg savner mere plot og det drive en tur gennem Europa giver. Her er heltinden efterladt alene i hjemmet med små tvill…
Grønland er flot. Og fucked up. Og hvad så. Tja det er der i hvert fald ingen svar på. Det savner jeg nok.
This is a tough book to get into – composed of prose pieces that are related but often not connected. There is an allegory in the Kingdom of the Blind – the blind obviously being privileged over the slum-dwellers (in a style that reminds…
Charmerende skæv og rigtig. Og jeg har det fx. hver morgen som første side:
Om morgenen – tidligt, stadig i mørke – vågner jeg og er en amøbe. Forsvinder i søvnen igen til vækkeuret ringer. Jeg går gennem alle udviklingens stadier, hver…
I wanted to take a peek at the beginning of this, and ended up just reading it all… An interesting story of three men and the woman in their lives – of being a real man in today’s South Africa and how options are limited by society, fe…
I am really enjoying the equal humor and depth of Olafdóttirs novels. This is my second (I really enjoyed the Nordic Council Prize winner: Ar (scars?) as well) and there are similarities: we kick off with a person in crisis, going on the…
An amazing collection of stories – and they are just that: Proper stories, not those odd unsatisfying half-stories that are sometimes the hallmark of short story collections. All of these could be expanded into novels, but function well …
Stories of women, their lives and deaths – punctuated by the calls to prayer by the muezzin. Sharing the lives of a variety of muslim women, with a traditional mindset. Many of these the stories of older to elderly women – so not much of…
