📝 First Impressions Conan Barbarul: Misterul Fântânii Blestemate by Robert E. Howard was one of my fantasy reads in 2016. As an adventure featuring Conan the Barbarian, it belongs to the sword and sorcery tradition, a branch of fantasy built…
The complete guide to Franz Kafka’s published works, original collections, posthumous writings and reading order. 📚 Franz Kafka: Complete Bibliography Franz Kafka (1883–1924) occupies a unique place in world literature. Although he published relatively little during his lifetime, his novels,…
📝 First Impressions Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Other Stories is the kind of book that appears deceptively simple at first. The sentences are often clear, the situations are presented with an almost calm precision, and the stories rarely explain themselves…
On Saturday, 17 October 2026, I joined the first edition of a book club gathering at Nori și Cafea in Bucharest. Our subject was Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, known to Romanian readers as Pe aripile vântului, and its…
📝 First Impressions I read Fahrenheit 451 in 2014, and what stayed with me most was not just the story itself, but how uncomfortable it felt to realise that a book published in 1953 could still describe certain aspects of…
📝 First Impressions I picked up Crăciunul în cele mai frumoase povestiri expecting exactly what the title promised: a collection of beautiful Christmas stories. Something warm, atmospheric, maybe a little nostalgic, the kind of book you can read in December…