I wanted to start posting my own stuff, but I’ve been in such a bad mood and so uninspired lately...
So I’ll just start with simple things, like keeping track
I’m currently reading:
- War Does Not Have a Woman's Face, by Svetlana Alexievich (Nobel Prize 2015), a bielorussian journalist and non-fiction writer.
Most of the war literature is written by men and about men. Alexievich’s book shows the Second World War from russian women’s point of view. Women that went to the front, that fought, that worked for the belic industry, that attended the injured. The writer is also driven by the need to show the human, the ugly, the “true”, side of the war; not the war she got to know through the books she grew up surrounded by: about the Victory, the titles, the medals.
I’m halfway through it and i’m really enjoying it. It’s filled with interesting historic information but it also makes you think about the human condition.