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

J. D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy

12/02/2019

Nearly every person you will read about is deeply flawed. Some have tried to murder other people, and a few were successful. Some have abused their children, physically or emotionally. Many abused (and still…
John Boyne: The Heart’s Invisible Furies

08/02/2019

It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all…
Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge

02/02/2019

”When I was young,” Mrs. Kitteridge said, holding her sunglasses in her hand, ”—little, you know—I’d hide in the wood box when my father came home. And he’d sit down on the wood box…
Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Klassikkohaaste 8

31/01/2019

These girls formed the Brodie set. That was what they had been called even before the headmistress had given them the name, in scorn, when they had moved from the Junior to the Senior…
Kate Atkinson: Transcription

24/01/2019

After twenty minutes of waiting as instructed – in an unforgiving wind – a Bedford bus pulled up in front of Juliet. It was a single-decker and on its side it announced ’Highland Tours’…
Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop

10/01/2019

December 9 1959 Dear Mr Thornton, A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be…
Maggie Nelson: The Red Parts

05/01/2019

Years before, I had had a lover who was a welder. As a gift he once welded me the single most beautiful object that I own. It is a palm-sized box made of Plexiglas,…
Domenico Starnone: Trick

04/01/2019

The child seemed relieved when she disappeared down the hallway. He placed one of the books on the table, arranged the other on my legs as if they were a desk, and began to…

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J. D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy

John Boyne: The Heart’s Invisible Furies

Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge

Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Klassikkohaaste 8

Kate Atkinson: Transcription

Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop

Maggie Nelson: The Red Parts

Domenico Starnone: Trick

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