Category: DENEMELER / ESSAYS

  • The number of sports one can properly perform decreases with age. I can no longer play football without getting some minor injury, if I stop training for a few weeks I get sore all over when I start running again. Perhaps most depressing is that I have lower back pain if I don’t regularly stretch…

    The Perfect Hobby for Middle-Aged Males: Cycling
  • Yaşlandıkça insanın yapabileceği sporlar azalıyor. Bisiklet, yüzme gibi sıkıcı, golf gibi uyuşuk, yürüyüş gibi anti-spor olmadığı için güzel bir opsiyon. Üstelik Londra düz olduğundan bisikleti aynı zamanda bir vesait olarak da kullanıyorum: park yeri derdi yok, yürümekten hızlı, çevreye faydalı, metroya göre sağlıklı… 

    Ideal Erkek Hobisi: Bisiklet 
  • Heartbroken at 18, I had calculated that the little happiness love would bring was not worth the commensurate pain, and with an engineer’s resolve, I declared myself above human emotions.

    Why Do Men Get Emotional With Age?
  • One of the perks of being a Turkish speaker is (roughly every four years) a new Orhan Pamuk book is published and we get to read it immediately revelling in his unique style with a feeling of nostalgia.

    Reading Orhan Pamuk, Nights of Plague
  • I love to read all sorts of reviews, blog posts, book club notes; watch films and TV series on books that get me thinking. But most fulfilling are well written fan fiction novels. Circe is a very successful representative of this sub-genre.

    Circe, Madeline Miller