Prose & Paper

We Were Liars had been on my Amazon wish list for more than six years. After its publication in 2014, the YA novel spent quite some time on bestseller lists. Then again in 2020 – because of TikTok. The book had become viral on BookTok and I purchased it when ...

Have you ever heard of the Streisand effect? The Streisand effect is a phenomenon whereby the attempt to suppress something only brings more attention or notoriety to it.https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-streisand-effect-barbra In 2003, Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman for a photo of her Malibu beach house, which he had taken and published ...

Emma Cline’s stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta. She got a major book deal for The Girls (2016) and won prizes for her writing. And a while ago, her first book was all over Bookstagram, which is how I heard of her. While ...

So, I read classics, I recently learned I enjoy reading memoirs, I like contemporary literature, fantasy as well as urban and historical fiction. Romance novels are something I have never really read before. There is no reason for it really, I just never did. Until I started my subscription with ...

Writing about memoirs is something I find really hard, because the book’s content is so personal to someone I have most likely never met in my life. After having listened to Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton on BookBeat and finding out that, surprisingly, I like memoirs, I ...

A few years back, Everything I Know About Love was all over Bookstagram. You would see the cover everywhere. Only four years later, I finally read it. Or, rather, listened to Dolly Alderton, the author, read the book. It has been sitting on my bookshelf for quite a while but ...

What I love most about my book club is the variety of books we read: Essays and autobiographies as well as literary fiction. We read funny books, we read contemporary books, we read books that make us wonder, but this one was a first: a horror story – but sort ...

It’s an American classic and it still has a great impact on so many readers: The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome David Salinger (1919-2010). After a few friends had recommended the book to me, I decided to finally read it when I found myself in a reading slump. Reading ...

Alix Chamberlain is in her early thirties, a successful blogger and entrepreneur, and the mother of two toddler-aged daughters. Emira Tucker is 25 years old, chronically broke, and works part-time for the Chamberlain family as a babysitter. One night at a supermarket, she is accused of kidnapping the family’s oldest ...

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people. […]In what way? he says.I don’t know why I can’t make people love me. I think there was something wrong with me when I was born.page 181 Marianne Sheridan and Connell ...