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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
Sweet Days of Discipline is a slim dagger of a novel. Written in a prose so sharp it will cut you, Sweet Days of Discipline is a work of startling and enigmatic beauty, a study in contradictions: order and chaos, sublimity and abjection, clarity and obfuscation, illusion and reality. Fleur Jaeggy is in absolute command…
1950s, 1st pov, 20th century, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, academia, Adult, all girls school, ambiguous protagonist, atmospheric, beauty, bildungsroman, boarding/private school, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, CLASSICS, cold tone, dark academia, Dreams, existentialism, favourite authors, female authors, first love, Fleur Jaeggy, girlhood, HISTORICAL FICTION, Italian classics, Italy, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, melancholy, modern classics, My reviews, nostalgic reads, NOVELLA/SHORT STORY, obsession, psychological, published in 1989, queer, re-reads, read in 2018, read in 2021, reading, sapphic, SEXUALITY, Sweet Days of Discipline, swiss italian author, Switzerland, terrific prose, unnamed narrator, unreliable narrators, unrequited love -
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
“That feeling of security, that sweetness, that pain, that gentleness. I felt sure that every time I saw the green of the trees in my garden awash in light from the street, I’d be struck by a sudden flicker of remembrance—the tail of that soft melody—and I’d chase along behind it, as if sniffing my…
1980s, 1st pov, 3.5 STARS, Banana Yoshimoto, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, collection of short stories, DEATH, Dreams, f/f side, favourite authors, female authors, GRIEF, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, lgbtq+, love triangle, MAGICAL REALISM, My reviews, nostalgic reads, published in 1989, read in 2021, reading, restrained prose, short stories, summer reads, TRANSLATED FICTION, uplifting reads -
Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto — book review
“This story you’re reading contains my memories of the final visit I made to the seaside town where I passed my childhood—of my last summer at home.” Goodbye Tsugumi is the quintessence of Yoshimoto. Written in her quietly poetic prose Goodbye Tsugumi is a novel that is light on the plot. Yoshimoto introduces us to…
1980s, 1st pov, 20th century, 3 STARS, Banana Yoshimoto, coming of age, favourite authors, female authors, female friendships, friendships, Goodbye Tsugumi, growing up, illness, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, light reads, LITERARY FICTION, mumblecore, published in 1989, re-reads, read in 2020, read in 2021, read in 2022, read in Italian, tokyo, TRANSLATED FICTION -
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY: BOOK REVIEW
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★★ 5 of 5 stars “Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.” …and now I am sad. This hit me harder than expected. I find it impossible hard to believe that this book was written by Kazuo Ishiguro…
1920s, 1930S, 1940s, 1950s, 1st pov, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, aristocracy, booker-prize, British author, class, england, existentialism, favourite authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, introspective, Kazuo Ishiguro, LITERARY FICTION, MEMORY, modern classics, morality, mr. stevens, philosophical, published in 1989, READ IN 2019, The Remains of the Day, unreliable narrators, unrequited love, WWII
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