Have you ever felt like you have been on the outside, fighting so hard to fit in that you can no longer find yourself when you look in the mirror? That the person staring back at you is a stranger that can’t be reconciled with the inner voice, the inner longing, the inner turmoil. I [...]
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The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J.R.R Tolkein
I don’t really know where to start. Is it appropriate to review a trilogy of books with such critical acclaim as these? I will do it anyway, and I will start at the very beginning, which is 2001. As part of the weekends I spent with my Dad, who had left my Mum alone with [...]
The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld
I found this book snooping around a Dutch bookshop on a cold, wet night in Amsterdam in December. Its title appealed to me, after suffering many lonely nights awake, battling anxiety and depression, trying to make sense of a world around me that didn’t make any sense. But the book quickly spirals and, aside from [...]
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