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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My next read was Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman. I liked its take on the banality of big corporate day-to-day operations, politics and decisions. Also it being an Obama reading pick, makes me wonder, is there an irony here I’m missing. #Booksky #literature #fiction

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The next read was A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien. The descriptions of golden age Hollywood were vivid, but one thing that kept coming to my mind is “downward mobility” and what it means for those coming after us to have it worse economically. #booksky #literature #fiction

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wake up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames had its moments, but for a book described as hilarious, it was pretty grim, especially the end. Also I totally missed that a main character was just a fragment of another character’s imagination. Overall a good read. #booksky #literature

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I consider myself to be a slow reader, so to finish this in one day was something for me. The King of Fools by Frédéric Dard was a page turner that I haven’t experienced in a while. #booksky #literature #fiction

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Not sure if a thing such as a “reader’s block” exists, but in the past two months I couldn’t summon the energy to do reading. Glad to have put an end to that with Slovej Balle’s book 4 of her series On the Calculation of Volume. #booksky #literature #fiction

On the Calculation of Volume, Book 4, by Slovej Balle.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Aaand continuing with the next book right away, my first non-fiction in a while: Søren Mau's Mute Compulsion. I'm reading this with a potential mission: writing a paper for a business economics course I'm attending at university, if I can find the right angle for it. #Booksky #Nonfiction #Marx

A picture of Soren Mau's book Mute Compulsion - A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The next reading is Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country. It’s been sitting on my shelf for at least 4 years. I used to have this habit of not buying new books unless I read the ones I already had. Somehow I realized that’s a nonsense rule. Books don’t have expiration dates! #Booksky #Literature

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Second, I absolutely loved the opening sentence of the book. It was the perfect blend of randomness and relatability, and it felt like something that would definitely happen to me. (2/3)

The opening sentence of the book, which goes as follows: As I was putting away in my basement lock-up some saucepans that couldn't be used with my new induction hob, I came across an old diary from 2000.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I've been thinking about sharing few of my thoughts about the books I finish reading, and I feel like Long Live the Post Horn! is a great one to start with. First, I loved the inside cover closeup of a mail sorting shelf, which I hadn't noticed until I started reading the book last week. (1/3)

Inside cover with a picture of a mail sorting shelf photographed closeup.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Excited to go back to my reading spree after a short pause to focus on exams. I’ve come across Vigdis Hjorth’ @versobooks.bsky.social publications before, but this is the first one of her books that I’m reading. #Booksky #Literature #Fiction

Long Live the Post Horn!, a novel by Vigdis Hjorth.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

After a short break, back to reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico. I was captivated by the description of the book, but I don’t know exactly what to expect. Also off topic, but I wish Fitzcarraldo’s font were a tiny little bit bigger. #Booksky #Literature #Fiction

The book titles Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The trove of books I just received. Probably won’t get around to reading them in a few months, but I’m excited to eventually read them. #Booksky #Literature #Fiction

A trove of books I received:
The King of Fools by Frederic Dard
Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames
Niki, The Story of a Dog by Tibor Dery
A Way of Life, Like No Other by Darcy O’Brien, and
The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Getting started with this one. First read 1984 when I was in university and I loved it. I have high hopes for this one too. #booksky #fiction #literature

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Reading this book gives me a sense of nostalgia of something I never lived through. It also makes me want to quit my job and open a café. #booksky #fiction #literature

A picture of the book “The Café with No Name” by Robert Seethaler

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

4th book so far this year, and I’m enjoying it so far (also it is breaking my heart in the context of what is happening) #booksky

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

As the 2025 draws to an end, I’d like to share with you the books I’ve read this year. #books #fiction #booksky #literature

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
ARUNDHATI ROY, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
HALLDOR LAXNESS, INDEPENDENT PEOPLE
HAN KANG, GREEK LESSONS
HAN KANG, The Vegetarian
HAN KANG, HUMAN ACTS
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY, The DOUBLE
ALICE WALKER, THE COLOR PURPLE
VICTOR SERGE, THE CASE OF COMRADE TULAYEV
Nell Zink, Sister Europe
GOLI TARAGHI, THE POMEGRANATE LADY AND HER SONS
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE, THREE COMRADES
SOLVEJ BALLE, ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I
SOLVEJ BALLE, ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME II
RACHEL, CUSK PARADE
JO HAMYA ,THE HYPOCRITE
David Szalay, FLESH

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I believe that this part from Susan Sontag’s introduction in The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge perfectly describes why some current Trump supporters, especially those most hurt by his policies, stubbornly refuse to accept the seek the truth.

Serge, modestly, says it only takes some clarity and independence to tell the truth. In Memoirs of a Revolutionary, he writes:
I give myself credit for having seen clearly in a number of important situations. In itself, this is not so difficult to achieve, and yet it is rather unusual. To my mind, it is less a question of an exalted or shrewd intelligence, than of good sense, goodwill and a certain sort of courage to enable one to rise above both the pressures of one's environment and the natural inclination to close one's eyes to facts, a temptation that arises from our immediate interests and from the fear which problems inspire in us. A French essayist has said: "What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it." You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.

"What is terrible when you seek the truth..." A dictum to be pinned above every writer's desk

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I received these two beauties today, can’t wait to get to read them.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Started on this year’s first read with Dostoevsky’s The Double and so far I’m enjoying it.

The book “The Double” by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Reading Anna Burns is such an infuriating experience. Yet, I know that by the end I’ll feel a satisfaction I won’t be able to explain.

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Ennis @mini-e.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Pretty sure they’re just lying to kill more Palestinians. I was reading The Punishment of Gaza, which was made free by @versobooks.bsky.social and came across this article from 2006. What I thought was mania in Israel after the October 7 attack, turned out to be the same rhetoric from 20 years ago.

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