The Seaside Stories

Hello everyone! Hope you are as well as can be during these mad times. If there is a silver lining to this, it's the fact that now it's impossible to come up with an excuse to not pick up that book that's burning in your bookcase and read it! I am (once again) juggling three books in one go (to be honest, one of them is a series of small, academic books). I just can't help it! I love alternating, although all of the works I am currently keeping near are in the factual sphere of things. You need to keep your brain active even (or especially) if you're in self-isolation! What book or creative work are you currently reading? Comment below The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan A massive yet intense yet beautiful brick of a book, covering the history of the famous Silk Roads (roads which saw the flowing of goods, religions, people, diseases etc.). The book refuses the Eurocentric view of the world history, which is taught in European s...

Hello everyone! I hope you're doing well! At times when I'm down, stressed or just need something to lift me up and I struggle to focus with my current reads, I go back to my favourites. Something about going back to those familiar worlds and letting yourself completely be absorbed by characters and text you know inside out is comforting. It's like going back to one's happy place, but created by someone else than you. You just love to be in it. It might remind you of the place you first read it at or a certain part of your life - or neither of those - and all the story does is make you feel at ease. In this post I want to introduce you to five of my comfort reads (in no particular order, apart from the first two ;) )  Are any of these on your go-to list? (All photos from various tumblr sites) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde I remember when this book got assigned for me to read for our literature class in Finland when I was about 16 or 17 years old. A...

Dear readers! Hope you're having a fantastic week. Have you been reading much? If yes, what's hot for you right now? Leave a comment below! I'm always reading 2-3 books at the same time. I mean, not literally but I will keep a couple of options on my night stand and on our coffee table as for me, what I want to read depends on my mood. I'm a big on autobiographical books and memoirs because I am always super interested in lived experience: it doesn't matter who they are or what they did, I just want to know how they felt, what did they say or do with their friends or family, what is/was their intimate passion. Without further ado, let me introduce my current reads: Over the Top ,  Mao: A Very Short Introduction and  Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night Time Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness For my birthday Joe got me nearly all of the memoirs of the Queer Eye cast; I got Tan, I got Karamo. JVN was the last one missing from the collec...