‘Funny, outrageous,
touching, intimate, gorgeous’ ...
Yiruma
Time Forgets
Best
Books of 2018 according The Guardian
The beautiful prose grabs you while the story makes you sad,
optimistic, moved and intrigued from beginning to end. And it has a great
ending. It tackled a serious subject with wit, mirth and intelligence. A real
page turner without being too taxing and heavy. Easy to read and follow the
story without the need for a dictionary by your side. A simple story with a
solid message behind.
Quietly beautiful. No book has ever told such a simple story in
such a way, following the existence of the two main characters as they roll
in and out of each other’s lives like waves on a beach.
”The Healing Next Time” by Roy McFarlane
Roy McFarlane’s The Healing Next Time (Nine Arches) begins with an epigraph from James
Baldwin’s interrogation of American racism in The Fire Next
Time: “God gave Noah the Rainbow sign, no more water
but the fire next time.” McFarlane’s “New Millennium Journal” convincingly
connects race and class violence to global capitalism and the war on terror. He
asks what makes healing possible when “Noah’s Ark of community cohesion /
wasn’t made for the fire that was to burn.”
Fire and Fury by Michael
Wollf
“It’s worse than you
imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns.” It says much for 2018 that those words
could describe any number of political scenarios but they’re actually
attributed to a leaked memo about Donald Trump, supposedly representing the
views of his disillusioned then economic adviser Gary Cohn and quoted in Michael Wolff’s bestselling book Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House (Little, Brown). The unfolding
car crash inside the White House has proved fertile ground for publishing, if
nothing else, with Wolff’s partisan but highly readable account being followed
this autumn by Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in
the White House. The
latter is so scrupulous about avoiding editorial judgments and letting the
facts speak for themselves that it reads less like a book than like the notes
for one, consisting of sequences of detailed reporting barely joined by a
narrative. But both paint a similarly appalling picture of a dangerously
thin-skinned man with the concentration span of a toddler, whose own aides –
and in Wolff’s reading particularly, own family – still can’t quite believe he
managed to get elected.
”Melmoth” by Sarah Perry
This story is very well told. Astonishingly dark,
rich storytelling, exquisitely balanced between gothic shocks and emotional
truthExquisitely written, and gripping until the very last page, this is masterpiece of moral complexity, asking us profound questions about mercy, redemption, and how to make the best of our conflicted World.
... because i'm just a soul whose
intentions are good
... På återseende
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIdAPGrKmc
Yiruma Farewell
Med aldrig sinande vänlighet
Yiruma Farewell
Med aldrig sinande vänlighet
Ðeno
