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Such delight, reading is! – even for a weird little reader like me, whose reading speed and preferred genre you can never be sure of. One day, I gobble up a dozen of horror short stories, one right after the other, like freshly-baked muffins… and on the next, I take centuries to make my mind … Continue reading “Shadowblack”: the adventures of an outlaw spellcaster

Time for yet another most delightful – if chilling my blood to the bone, as it rightfully did – short story by H.P Lovecraft! This time, we are going to focus on his famous tale of the Cthulhu entity – the central figure of a whole mythos. Written in 1926 and published two years later … Continue reading “The Call of Cthulhu”: the gods are not always in one’s favour

Hark! Your path into the land of regular magical fantasy will be now intersected… but not by another novel. This time, our focus falls on a short story, and a short story by nobody but H. P. Lovecraft himself. Written in the summer of 1917 and first published in 1919, this short story is among … Continue reading “Dagon”: a tale of a descent into madness

At last, fantasy! After so many sea adventures, both big and small, it’s time for me to share my thoughts on a slightly different kind of novel. A novel that, while rooted into an imaginary world that only has little to do with our own, was strangely relevant to reality. How exactly? Do give me … Continue reading “Spellslinger”: where magic lies in the lack of magic

Much like the previous review, today’s title is as long as a great whale’s spine. But don’t give me such perplexed looks, oy, m’dearies! ‘Tis time to dive in the depths of this next novel like we did with the previous one and to explore them like brave literary scuba-divers. And are we not such? … Continue reading “Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean” – yet more marine adventures

Quite the long title for today’s review, innit? “As long as the book itself”, I can hear the people who have read it say – and they are right. But the book is not so long just because. It is the crossroads for three fates. The first fate is that of Danish-Prussian sailor Laurids Madsen, … Continue reading “We, the drowned” – a saga about Danes whose bravery and thirst for life withstand time

Както се случи и с миналата рецензия, и този път заглавието е дълго като гръб на син кит. Но недейте да ме гледате толкова объркано, драги мои. Време е да се гмурнем в дълбините и на този роман и да ги изследваме като смели литературни водолази. А нима не сме такива? Въпросната гренландска акула, която … Continue reading “Морска книга, или изкуството да ловиш гигантска акула с гумена лодка насред огромното море през четирите годишни сезона” – отново морски приключения

Доста дълго заглавие за днешната рецензия, нали? Дълго като самата книга, ще кажат онези, които са я чели – и са прави. Но книгата не е дълга напразно. В нея са събрани три съдби. Първата е тази на моряка от датско-пруската война Лауридс Мадсен, който бива запратен във въздуха от мощна експлозия по време на … Continue reading “Ние, удавниците” – сага за датчани, чиято смелост и жажда за живот устояват на времето

And noooow, time for a book that is *not* on my to-read list… yet again. And not simply a book. This one is in Swedish, and that means, guess what? There are barely any reviews on it in English, if any. Or at least right now. Because there will be after I’m done. Anyway, back … Continue reading “A Thousand Times Stronger”, or a story about the new girl in the class who changed everything

Time to tick yet another book off of the to-read list for this year! It’s now time for “Sharp Objects”, Gillian Flynn’s debut into the world of writing. Whether or not the author’s name rings a bell (any “Gone Girl” fans here?) or not, sit down and make yourselves comfortable. It’s thriller time. Camille Preaker, … Continue reading “Sharp Objects” – the unraveling of a family drama that slowly spirals into madness