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

George Eliot: Middlemarch | Klassikkohaaste 19

31/07/2024

Not that this inward amazement of Dorothea’s was anything very exceptional: many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities and left to ‘find their feet’ among them, while their elders go…
Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head

24/07/2024

One morning Duncan’s silence had a new quality. He seemed to be waiting for someone to speak, and at last spoke himself.’Does anyone notice a difference in the room?’’The portrait of Aunt Ellen is…
Muriel Spark: Memento Mori

22/07/2024

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other…
Barbara Comyns: Sisters By a River

20/07/2024

When I was about four I can remember a rather dreadful thing happening, it was very early in the morning and for some reason I had been put to sleep in the same bed…
Elizabeth von Arnim: The Solitary Summer

18/07/2024

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden. And how easy…
Elizabeth O’Connor: Whale Fall

14/07/2024

The whale became stranded in the shallows of the island overnight, appearing from the water like a cat slinking under a door. No one noticed it: not the lighthouse with its halo of light…
Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood

28/06/2024

’So what is it about billionaires and survivalism?’ she’d asked him, the third or fourth time they met. ’Is it just an arms race? Like, just a pissing contest? Or do you all know…
Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer

17/06/2024

What do those who struggle against power do when they seize power? What does the revolutionary do when the revolution triumphs? Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence…

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George Eliot: Middlemarch | Klassikkohaaste 19

Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head

Muriel Spark: Memento Mori

Barbara Comyns: Sisters By a River

Elizabeth von Arnim: The Solitary Summer

Elizabeth O’Connor: Whale Fall

Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood

Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer

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