Category: DENEMELER / ESSAYS
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For an obsessive compulsive reader like myself, every year begins – among others – with a goal to read certain amount of books of certain genres. However during the year, this goal gets derailed by my impulsive reading of a flashy new novel or a non-fiction topic that I find attractive as I find myself…
