It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn’t accumulate as I’d once imagined. (..) I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face.
Cijfer: 6
boekrecensie
The Snakes – Sadie Jones
” How do they get in?” ” They come up through the vines. They can get through tiny, tiny holes, anywhere.”
Cijfer: 9,0
Libris Longlist: Hier – Joke van Leeuwen
Cijfer: 6,5
“Ik wil je zien.”
“Zal ik in de schuur op je wachten, het is de enige plek waar we vrij zijn.”
“Nee, daar zitten te veel insecten. Ik heb al eens buiten geslapen, ik wil niet buiten slapen.”
“We gaan niet slapen. We gaan vrijen.”
Everything Under – Daisy Johnson
In the scree of trees crows gathered and then broke apart like jigsaw pieces.The Only Story – Julian Barnes
I had no new definition of love. I didn’t really examine what it was, and what it might entail. I merely submitted to love in all its aspects, from butterfly kisses to absolutism. Nothing else mattered.
Cijfer: 7,5
The Nix – Nathan Hill
A Taxi. The driver vaults out and screams: “Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!” pointing at Samuel as if to specially emphasize it is him -and no one else- who needs to be fucked.
Cijfer: 8
