39 Books: 1989
Nowadays I would be put off reading a book labelled controversial and exciting gossipy attention o…
Nowadays I would be put off reading a book labelled controversial and exciting gossipy attention o…
This is one of my most surprising discoveries in second-hand bookshop trawls in the far off days wh…
Although we are unmusical, we have a tradition of singing Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse F…
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us , says Kafka in the famous letter. I wondere…
"My compulsion to write does not occlude the uselessness of filling pages with words" wri…
You have made me unhappy. I bought your "Metamorphosis" as a present for my cousin, bu…
I don't know how people can read an emotional novel. Unless the reader is hoodwinked into thin…
A question arises from my breathless response to volume one of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle :…
I think we ought to read only books that wound and stab us. Kafka's letter, sent one hundred…