Books in English

Kotimaisten kirjojen ja käännöskirjojen lisäksi luen paljon muilla kielillä. Eniten englanniksi, toiseksi eniten espanjaksi ja myös silloin tällöin ranskaksi ja italiaksi. Tältä sivulta löydät kootusti kaikki blogissa käsitellyt englanninkieliset kirjat. Arviot on kirjoitettu suomeksi, mutta keväästä 2024 alkaen olen alkanut lisätä niihin tiivistelmän englanniksi. Toivottavasti siitä on iloa niille sivukävijöille, jotka eksyvät kiinnostavan kirjan perässä tänne Suomen ulkopuolelta.

In addition to Finnish books and books translated into Finnish, I read a lot in other languages. Mostly in English, second most in Spanish and also occasionally in French and Italian. On this page you will find all the English-language books covered on the blog. The reviews are written in Finnish, but from spring 2024 onwards I have started to include a summary in English. I hope that it will be useful for those visitors who wander in from outside Finland in search of an interesting book.

Books in English

Michael Finkel: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

11/03/2024

Take the ivory Adam and Eve. There’s a profusion of symbolism embedded in the piece, augmenting a notable consistency of proportion and a fine balance of pose. Or so a museum tour guide would…
Laura Cumming: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

03/03/2024

I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world – and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and…
Joanna Biggs: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

29/02/2024

I used to want desperately to be a ‘proper’ critic, to be taken seriously, to have full command of history and theory, but I don’t want that anymore. I don’t want to ‘admire’ writing…
Trent Dalton: Lola in the Mirror

20/02/2024

When Mum told me about the monster blood and how it felt to stick a paring knife in the throat of her husband in order to save her life and mine, the words landed…
Kit de Waal: My Name is Leon

15/02/2024

Leon opens the door wide. They all look at him. Social workers have two pretend faces, pretend Happy and Pretend Sad. They’re not supposed to get angry so they make angry into sad. This…
Sigrid Nunez: The Vulnerables

06/02/2024

Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading,…
Ann-Marie MacDonald: Fayne

26/01/2024

I had expected that a tutor was a sort of vessel which would tip and empty its contents into my brain and I would be full of education. Instead, my tutor opened for me…
John Banville: The Sea

18/01/2024

Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, the will butting its blunt head against the world’s wall, suchlike, but when I look back I see that the greater…

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Michael Finkel: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Laura Cumming: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Joanna Biggs: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Trent Dalton: Lola in the Mirror

Kit de Waal: My Name is Leon

Sigrid Nunez: The Vulnerables

Ann-Marie MacDonald: Fayne

John Banville: The Sea

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