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

Yōko Ogawa: Mina’s Matchbox

05/02/2025

If you wanted to describe Mina in a few words, you might say she was an asthmatic girl who loved words and rode a pygmy hippopotamus. But if you wanted to distinguish her from everyone…
Graham Norton: Frankie

30/01/2025

This was always the awkward bit. That strange beginning when patient and carer tried to assess who they were dealing with, while also attempting to assert their specific role in the arrangement. Damian took…
Louise Erdrich: The Mighty Red

24/01/2025

Martin’s family name had been Poise until about a hundred years ago, when his family dropped three letters for the freedom of a single syllable. Martin and Crystal went to the same college, dropped…
Rachel Lyon: Self-Portrait with Boy

20/01/2025

The very act of recall is like trying to photograph the sky. The infinite and ever-shifting colors of memory, its rippling light, cannot really be captured. Show someone who has never seen the sky…
Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings

16/01/2025

I’d been packing on the day before going up to Oxford when the phone rang, and as nobody answered I nipped along the landing to the big bedroom. The lacquer-red extension was on what…
Andrew O’Hagan: Caledonian Road

13/01/2025

Why Men Weep in Their Cars. Out in three months.It was a good title: a money title, Atticus was right.He chose ThinkUp – ’personalized affirmations and motivations daily’ – and listened ten times to…
Kirjasomen joulukalenteri 2024: 14. luukku

14/12/2024

Kirjasomen joulukalenterin eilinen luukku aukesi Kirsin Book Clubissa ja huomisesta luukusta vastaa Kirjan jos toisenkin -blogi. Kalenterin aloitusluukku löytyy Yöpöydän kirjat -blogista, jossa on lista kaikista luukuista linkkeineen. Kalenterin logot ovat perinteiseen tapaan myös…
Clare Chambers: Shy Creatures

03/12/2024

’You mean a mental asylum?’ her mother had said when Helen called to tell her about her new appointment at Westbury Park. ’Oh, Helen.’She had not expected congratulations; her parents were not the sort…

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Yōko Ogawa: Mina’s Matchbox

Graham Norton: Frankie

Louise Erdrich: The Mighty Red

Rachel Lyon: Self-Portrait with Boy

Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings

Andrew O’Hagan: Caledonian Road

Kirjasomen joulukalenteri 2024: 14. luukku

Clare Chambers: Shy Creatures

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