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

Sayaka Murata: Earthlings

25/02/2022

As I cycled past the rows of identical houses, I thought to myself again how much like nests they looked. They resembled a huge cocoon that Yuu and I had once found in the…
Won-pyung Sohn: Almond

18/02/2022

Mom said everything was for my sake, calling it love. But to me, it seemed more like we were doing this out of her own desperation not to have a child that was different.…
Louise Erdrich: The Sentence

16/02/2022

The best thing is when a customer comes back and praises the book you recommended. I can’t get enough of that. Boy: I saved my lawn-mowing money to buy this book. Me: I had…
Klara Hveberg: Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

10/02/2022

Now she feels like an off-key note in the musical score of the universe. The point is not to play all the notes correctly, Rakel. The point is to impart the universe’s symphony. You…
Iris Murdoch: A Fairly Honourable Defeat

07/02/2022

After Julius’s departure Rupert sat for a long time thinking about what had been said. Was Julius wholly serious, half serious, or not serious at all? It was very hard to say and perhaps…
Hilma Wolitzer: Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories

02/02/2022

Everybody said that there was a sex maniac loose in the complex and I thought—it’s about time. It had been a long asexual winter. The steam heat seemed to dry all of the body’s…
Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro | Klassikkohaaste 14

31/01/2022

St Valentine’s Book of Rhetoric, give me a precise and elegant metaphor to describe what those eyes of Capitu were like. How can I describe, without abandoning the dignity of classical style, what they…
Ali Smith: Hotel World

26/01/2022

Woooooooo- hooooooo what a fall what a soar what a plummet what a dash into dark into light what a plunge what a glide thud crash what a drop what a rush what a…

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Sayaka Murata: Earthlings

Won-pyung Sohn: Almond

Louise Erdrich: The Sentence

Klara Hveberg: Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

Iris Murdoch: A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Hilma Wolitzer: Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories

Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro | Klassikkohaaste 14

Ali Smith: Hotel World

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