About me💕

Hi, I am Alice and welcome to my little corner on the Internet 💖

I have been a reader since my very first steps. For as long as I can remember, books have been constant companions. They offered me comfort when I needed it the most, and challenged my worldview when I got too comfortable in my truths. 

I do not believe in stories as a mere tool of escapism. Books are my attempt to shine a light over the universe, and find my place within it. This blog is a map of that journey! 

Thank you for being here!

Why a blog?

I have worked in tech and engineering for some years now, and I am just not fond of social medias as a tool for communication! However, I have an itch for creating content!

I am a quite reserved and shy person, so YouTube was a terrible bet 😂 A blog felt freeing, simple enough and yet in tune with my style of self-expression!

What you will find here?

• List of books I like
• Reviews of books I have enjoyed, sometimes in Italian, sometimes in English, at times even in German!
• Pictures that usually I would not know where to put!
• Books I dislike 👀
• Book-ish spots in the area of Munich!

My vibes!

I like the "literary fiction" area of the bookstore! Although I occasionally dabble into fantasy and science-fiction, I tend not to enjoy books relying on genre's tropes.

I am a lover of the classics, specifically 19th century French literature and 20th century American authors, however I have a spot spot for Dickens, Kafka, Dostoevskij.. ( and many others😂).

I also enjoy reading non-fiction- usually I avoid self-help books ( I find them often rather full) and favor autobiographies and biographies, memoirs or works of political reporting. 

I read many papers ( also for work) so I tend to avoid heavily scientific works of non-fiction, as I get more than enough of a fix on a daily basis 😂

Some of my favorite titles ( and that have impacted me most as a reader & person ) include:

Contemporaries

• Human Acts by Han Kang
• White Noise by Don DeLillo
• The Fairy Oak Saga, by Elisabetta Gnone
• Wellness by Nathan Hill
• American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
• The Adversary, by Emmanuel Carrère
• Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
• Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney
• The Witches, by Roald Dahl
• The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
• Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli

Classics

• The Indifferents by Moravia
• Conscience of Zeno, Italo Svevo
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
• Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
• Therese Raquin by Emil Zola
• The Process, by Franz Kafka
• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

Non-fiction:

• Women, by Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis
• The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

This list is always changing and growing!

Other places you may find me:

If you think I am cool 😎 you can also find me at @Alice's Collection on goodreads or @alicescollection on Storygraph!