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!

Saturday, May 30, 2015


PurgePurge by Sofi Oksanen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Very rarely do I find a book that compels me to spend an entire day in bed, reading.
Purge is one such book, which may be a good 370 something pages long but which captured my interest entirely.
It's like a movie, in fact, like a Quentin Tarantino movie, which unfolds scene by scene, each with a quirky title on top.
More engrossing, however, is the storlyline: A victim of sex-trafficking runs away to find herself at the door of an old woman, who has been instrumental in shaping the course of not just her life but that of her grandmother and her mother.
What unfolds is a bittersweet saga of unrequited love, jealously and obsession. I still don't know whether to love or hate Aliide! Is her love for Hans and her actions towards Ingel pure evil? Or is she the new Heathcliffe?
Truly one of the darkest yet beautiful novels I have ever stumbled upon.

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