I'm Thinking of Reading a Book 💁🏻‍♀️

I think that the title says it all; below you will find the best books I read in 2022. Of course, I strongly recommend that you give them a go this year. So, I will cut to the chase right away. You should just know that the books are presented in the order in which I read them and that most of the descriptions provided below are taken from the blurbs of the books. Are you ready to find out my favourite books for 2022? Let's go!

Another summer is over, and a new autumn is here. The only consistent thing in this ever-changing life is my urge to read books. My autumn reads are a bit gloomy and dark so that they can reflect the weather and the nature outside. I guess that I am not alone in that regard. There is no reason to keep this intro long. Below, you will see all the books I intend to read this autumn.  1. September [Original Title: Septembre] by Jean Mattern (2015) The Israeli Olympic team is held hostage during the  1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . A young BBC reporter has found the perfect place to watch the developments live. But there is something -someone- else in his mind, and it is hard for him to focus on the tragedy of the situation at hand.  2. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019) This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born...

  How does a teenage boy feel when he falls in love for the first time? What is going on in his head when he desires another man even though a homosexual relationship is considered reprehensible? Elio is an artistic but quiet teenager. Every year his family accepts a postgraduate student to spend the summer with them in Italy. This year, Oliver visits them, and Elio can't stop thinking of this confident American. Will his desire overcome the shame associated with being attracted to another man in his small and old-fashioned village? Elio recalls all the emotions and thoughts he had as a teenage boy when he first saw Oliver until twenty years after their life-changing relationship. The book is divided into four parts. The first two parts, where Elio recounts meeting and having a crush on Oliver, provide limitless access to Elio's teenage mind. Although some of the thoughts discussed might sound extreme and excessive, the intensity and the uncertainty experienced when falling in ...

Milkman  for me is the definition of a book that has a fascinating premise but the execution is lacking. An eighteen-year-old woman tries to stay away from all the political conflicts of her little conservative town. Her life changes radically, when she becomes the talk of the town because a rumour about her being involved with a man named Milkman, who is not only a revolutionary leader but also a middle-aged, married man, is spread. Now that everyone is watching and judging her every move, she will have to reconsider her place in the community. Let me start the review with some major story-related choices. First of all, we don't know any of the characters' names. Instead of names, we get the relation between characters, like ‘first brother-in-law’, or nicknames, like ‘Milkman’. The lack of names can be interpreted in numerous ways; Firstly (as this is my personal favourite interpretation), it may show how the complete compliance to social rules leaves people with no critical t...

  The first book haul in this blog is finally here 🙌 This is a special haul for me because I paid for all those books with my own money from my first 'serious/adult' job. It was hard to choose just a few books out of all the novels, poetry collections and plays I have on my wish list. However, once I saw the images of the books below on the online bookstore, I couldn't stop myself. If you have read any of the books below, please tell me if you think that it was a good purchase or not in the comments.  I should note that the summaries are taken from the blurbs at the back cover. And without further ado, let me show you the new additions to my book collection.  My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2018) Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for by her inheritance: our narrator has many of the advantages of life. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn't just the loss of he...