Infinite Books

A blog about my adventures in reading…

Book reviews

  • “The Girl by the Bridge” by Arnaldur Indriðason

    A young man walks in the evening searching for poetic inspiration and stops on the bridge over the Pond in Reykjavik. He notices something unusual in the water: a doll, and he retrieves it. Then he sees a dead girl in the pond. Twenty years later, a young woman is found dead, a syringe stuck

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  • “Birnam Wood” by Eleanor Catton

    Did you think that gardening was a peaceful activity? After reading “Birnam Wood,” Eleanor Catton’s latest novel, you will surely change your mind. Birnam Wood is a clandestine gardening collective with a great idea: the group cultivates unused strips of land, abandoned construction sites, and such to grow vegetables. They are young, sharing their idealistic

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  • “Getting Lost” by Annie Ernaux

    In 1988 Annie Ernaux was 48 years old, living on the outskirts of Paris, and consumed by a love affair with a 36-year-old Russian diplomat based in Paris. She chronicled the next year and a half in her diary, the belated translation of which has just been published. Annie Ernaux is now eighty-four and the

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