Staring at the Sun

A very confusing book. Barely readable. It has its mesmerising points but nothing brighter or engaging. The question that kept plaguing me, was: the protagonist, what, had some congnitive abnormalities or something? Or was it just the convoluted style that made me feel like that? A DNF at that.......more

The really important questions do not have answers: and the really important answers do not need questions. Life is itself, not comparable to anything. And all the great miracles are present in the here and the now, if only we can see them... like staring at the sun through the gap between your fing......more

Julian Barnes’la ilişkimizi bir türlü stabilize edemedik, vallahi yoruldum. Bazen acayip iyi anlaşıyoruz, gözlerimden kalpler fışkırıyor, bazen “yok” diyorum, “olmuyor bu iş”, bazen de kendisini idare ediyorum. Bu defa üçüncüsü oldu diyebiliriz. Bundan önce okuduğum Barnes kitabı Flaubert’in Papağan......more

2.5* A preposterous conjoining of two nearly unrelated narratives in the manner of (IIRC) Anto Burgess' much more exuberantly alive The End of the World News, and so a rare rounding-down from me. You know, I don't DNF books very often, and try to give them their due 50 (view spoiler)[(Sally Rooney's Conversations W (hide spoiler)]......more

THE IMPOSSIBLE ALWAYS TAKES A LITTLE LONGER This is a very tough book to review, but a magical one to experience. The prose is close enough to a warm bed on a winter morning with a steaming cup of coffee in your hand and your favourite song playing in the background. It is a book of questions and a......more