MAY 2024

This post's gonna be short because I wasn't in Paris much this month. The few days I actually spent at the office were packed (working for an international company in a service role, May is absolute chaos with all those holidays...)

Here's something that's basically vanished from the blogosphere over the years: tags. We used to be all over these back when the blogosphere was buzzing (not gonna get nostalgic on you, but there was a time when blogs felt alive...)

Some novels feel like they actually start the second you close them. Some novels (and novelists) wink at you like "got you!" There are novels that pretend to be one thing when they're actually something else entirely...

"Advice: put down your books, open your window, embrace the world." Dan and Vlad met at Columbia University studying comparative literature, both dreaming of becoming writers. Twenty years later, they've drifted apart...

The hope of somewhere else to reach and fullness where we can breathe. I'm not a huge audiobook person yet, probably because I'm more visual than auditory and need the text in front of me to really appreciate it...

"The world is full of things we'd like to know but keep ignoring." When Itô wakes up on the morning of December 1st, he immediately realizes he's not at home, but he can't remember the last few hours he lived...

CFR /3 "Truth doesn't exist." 2008. Sliv has finally reached his goal: a seat on the Comex of the Consortium for Reality Falsification. But he's not entirely happy. Discovering the CFR's ultimate purpose doesn't satisfy him, neither does his personal life...

April in Paris felt like summer. Short skirts and sandals. I walked through parks a lot, picnicked in parks, read in parks. And occasionally locked myself in a dark theater...