karl ove knausgard – Cannonball Read 17

My Struggle Part five (Some Rain Must Fall) – Karl Ove Knausgard (2010)

My Struggle Part Five by Karl Ove Knausgard

December 13, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

For the UK title: This fifth volume of Knausgard’s novel closely picks up after the fourth. Here we find young Karl Over in love with a girl who he has spent exactly 20 minutes with. They will both be students in Bergen in the fall when she begins university and he begins a one-year writing course. He’s 19 and fresh off his teaching job in the country. He’s only 19, so the writing course seems to be a big deal and he definitely feels […]

In the Land of the Cyclops – Karl Ove Knausgard (2021)

In the Land of the Cyclops by Karl Ove Knausgard

February 4, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is about the third or so nonfiction book by Karl Ove Knausgard I’ve read and I think it’s the weakest. The other two, not counting the seasons quartet, which to read more and more like his My Struggle books (once the initial premise is established and especially the third in the seasons) are more unified in their version and not entirely analytical, are his book on writing and his book on Edvard Munch, both short, and both tightly focused. Here he meanders, and we’re […]

It was my first day.

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

So Much Longing in So Little Space by Karl Ove Knausgard

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliffe

McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh

June 17, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Lucy – 4/5 Stars I’ve read a handful of Jamaica Kincaid books, and her nonfiction book A Small Place stands out as a kind of collective memoir, nonfiction history from the perspective of someone who grew up in Antigua. This book acts similarly (as well as a similarly to her short stories in At the Bottom of the River) as a way of fleshing out the sparse lived experiences embedded in the more transitory pieces. What this novel most feels like to me is a first person […]

It was nine thirty on Christmas Eve.

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer

No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase

Time and Tide by Frank Conroy

Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow

Inside Stories by Ben H Winters

The Dark Web by Geoff White

Latin History for Morons by John Leguizamo

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgard

This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich

Dr Doolittle by Hugh Lofting

Texts from Jane Eyre by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain

May 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Here’s a whole bunch of kind of (Sorry) short reviews for short books! Pandemic reading!!! The Woman in Black – 3/5 Stars I still think it remains a little silly that this movie had Daniel Radcliffe in it. He was too fresh off of Harry Potter and hadn’t yet made his real transition into adult movies. I think his show “The Young Doctor’s Notebook” was a more successful vehicle for him as it placed him in a transitional role. Anyway, I mention all […]

Slowly my two suitcases glided around on the carousel in the arrivals hall.

My Struggle Vol 4 by Karl Ove Knausgard

March 8, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the fourth book in Karl Ove Knausgard’s six part novel/autobiographical writing series. This is the first time in the series that I’ve really felt the importance of the ordering. In the first book, we see how the 30ish year old Karl Ove is dealing with the untimely death of his father. But in this book, we better understand the impact that his father’s personality, parenting, and influence have on the developing teen. We begin the book with Karl Ove traveling to upper Norway […]

I am forty-six years old and that is my insight, that life is made up of events that have to be parried.

October 15, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Spring – 5/5 Stars Summer – 4/5 Stars The first two volumes of Karl Ove Knausgard’s Årstidsencyklopedien Cycle (which translates to something like Seasonal Encyclopedia) function more or less as the title suggests. A few years ago, after completing what is likely his masterwork My Struggle, a six-volume series of novels based on an interpretative view of his life (and I have to say having read the first three, that while they do focus on a lot of minutia, they are much more structures, focused, and […]

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