Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: The Consolations of the Forest, by Sylvain Tesson (Amazon / Book Depository) I'd promised myself that before I turned forty I would live as a hermit deep in the woods. I wanted to settle an old score with time. French author Sylvain Tesson felt an itch familiar to many: to escape the stress... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Dark Heart, by Joakim Palmkvist (Amazon / Book Depository) At summer's end in 2012, an older, miserly farmer went missing from his farm in the Swedish countryside. The surrounding region is dubbed the "dark heart of Smaland," in reference to its traditional conservatism and religious background. Palmkvist points out that it's an... Continue Reading →
Book review: Ask Baba Yaga, by Taisia Kitaiskaia The Hairpin is one of those sites I always mean to read, then don't. I've read some great pieces there, also some that are too hipster for my taste. Apparently one long-running feature of the site was an advice column, featuring the typical everyday problems of life,... Continue Reading →
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