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Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost by David Hoon Kim
While I can recognise that Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost is far from a terrible novel, I don’t have a lot of positive things to say about it. Personally, I don’t think the world needed yet another novel about a modern-day (wannabe) flâneur (who happens to be, you guessed it, an intellectual…
2.5 STARS, academia, Adult, ALIENATION, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, Contemporary, contemporary malaise, cultural dissonance, David Hoon Kim, DEATH, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), ennui, existentialism, FRANCE, identity, introspective, Italy, korean american author, language, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, male authors, metaphysical, My reviews, navel gazing, Paris Is a Party Paris is a Ghost, philosophical, published in 2021, read in 2021, reading, Rome, style over character, stylised prose, suicide -
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.” Once I started reading Piranesi I understood why so many reviewers disclosed very little about its story. The driving force in this novel is the not knowing what the hell is going on. The summary for Piranesi hints at the narrative’s peculiarity: our narrator, Piranesi,…
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Walking on the Ceiling : Book Review
Walking on the Ceiling by Aysegül Savas ★★✰✰✰ 2 stars I don’t mind plotless novels or meandering stories but there has to be something that holds my attention. Some of my favourite books feature characters with little to no backstory, and simply focus on a time of their life or certain feelings that they…
1st pov, 2 STARS, Adult, Aysegül Savas, bad love, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, books about writers, BOOKS ON WRITING, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, existentialism, female authors, FRANCE, GRIEF, identity, istanbul, LITERARY FICTION, MEMORY, metaphysical, migration/immigration, Paris, philosophical, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, REVIEW, travel, Turkey, turkish author, UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE, Walking on the Ceiling
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