We all love to travel, to new places, new cities in cars, buses, caravans, by air, by the sea but I have travelled everyday since I was ten through books. I have let the ocean kiss my feet on the Coast of Ipanema and nosed around in Calgary and my travel expenses have never been more than the price of a McDonald Cheese Burger. Here's my travelogue where books can be found through the countries they have taken me to. The reviews are not professional and definitely not worth putting into a book review assignment for school! They are just a string of words that tell you what I felt when I travelled to a certain place. If it suits you, you go and book yourself a trip. If not, well...we'll keep it there!

Friday, March 8, 2013


A Dog's HeartA Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A Dog's Heart is probably one of the most powerful satires ever written. You just can't classify this book into a particular genre because it is magical realism combined with political satire, science fiction and speculative fiction.

The story has shifting narrative and starts from the point of view of a stray dog who has been kicked, shooed, scalded by hot water and stoned but is later on is taken in by a crazy doctor who transplants a human heart into its body. The result is a narcissist, slovenly creature who is neither a man nor a dog and who becomes a pain in the neck for the poor doctor.

A biting satire on how the Soviet Communist regime attempted to radically transform mankind, A Dog's Heart laughs at the very ideas of the Communist Revolution and on Stalin through this book. So, if you adore the Russians, are very taken by the way things were before and after the revolution and want to read something that isn't really Soviet propaganda, A Dog's Heart is your book.

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