#reading is fun

Women’s Prize Longlist 2025 Dream Hotel is a dystopic novel with a message that is highly actual: beware of digital devises, algorithms and such, they might take over your life. In Dream Hotel the main character’s dreams are sufficient reason to lock her up. Apparently the algorithms based on her dreams have predicted she might want to harm her husband. An interesting theme one might say. Laila…

Elizabeth Day presents us with an insight into a very British world in which one’s birth will always define one’s place in society, leaving capable people feeling left out because they were not soaked in upper class rules. Main character Martin is one of those people. He basked in the attention of best friend Ben for a long time. At the start of the novel their friendship is renewed, offering…

My mom: you know, you could read your fanfiction like your father and I do.

Me: but I like this better reading fanfiction is boring

My mom: alright, but it’s always ok to change your mind

Me: not gonna happen

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Booker Prize 2025 Longlist The past year I’ve been avoiding Reva’s novel. For some kind of reason I was just not drawn to a novel apparently combining snails and the war in Ukraine. When Endling was almost chosen for my book club I decided the time had come to finally read the novel. To be quite pleasantly surprised. An endling is the last known individual of a species. In the novel the endling…

Those who have been following me for some time know I am a huge Strout fan. Every new novel is approached with some trepidation: will it live up to expectations, will the standard be high as usual? The answer is simply ‘yes’.  In a mere two hundred pages Strout manages to paint a picture of a decent, ordinary man faced with problems fellow ordinary people may also face. Main character in The…

I think I did a great job. Way to go, me! Five stars.