It is always pleasant for me, due to some book, to look into the respectable living rooms of the middle of the last century and listen to the clever conversations about book publishing, and there is so much of it in the novel "Two-Thirds of the Ghost" by Helen McCloy ( Read more... )

Recently, once again I became convinced that the eternal desire of readers to identify the author of books with the fictional characters by him often serves as a reason for jokes ... Or, more precisely, it is about the fact that readers regard a fascinating writer biography as a part of the very book product that they are to acquire ( Read more... )

Just like the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk writes in his collection of essays "Other Colors", I also feel a need of a “well-written book” almost daily.
“Nothing gives me so much happiness and nothing binds me so closely to life as reading a passage from some rich, deep novel about the world that I could believe in " - Orkhan Pamuk writes ( Read more... )

Yesterday, while posting some of my book reviews on the Goodreads, I noticed in the corner of my eye that some readers note they do not enjoy reading "The Goldfinch", they consider the novel  written "uneven" and is perplexed about the common thrill concerning this book, especially since the protagonist  behavior does not always serve as, so to ( Read more... )