Finished reading: The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚

Another deep dive into complex characters, questioning life, love, and family bonds, all with a strange celestial morning star in the heavens.

I did not enjoy this second book of the series as much as the first. But I still enjoyed the immersion into a new world, the deep character development, the smoldering mysteries, and the book’s characters popping up in my head throughout the day. This second book in the series stands on its own, with only the Morning Star appearing at the end tying it to the first.

This style of book is not for everyone; you have to enjoy slow-paced, deep character building. The author’s prose is outstanding, and you will find yourself enjoying each word.

Looking forward to the final book in the series, The Third Realm.

Some favorite highlights:

Now, thirty-five years on, I still haven’t told anyone what I saw that night, or what I did. I know, you see, that I could have saved him if only I’d done the right thing. But I didn’t do the right thing, and he died. No one needs to know. It’s my memory, and mine alone, and unless something unforeseen happens, I’ll take it with me to the grave.

‘Mum, you can’t just get a job these days. It’s 1986.’

The world was outside us, it was something we were in. But seeing it, it became a part of us. So wasn’t the world then inside us? If it was only on the outside and nothing of it got in, everything would just be dark. The same surely applied to hearing and smell and touch. Our senses took what was external and turned it into something internal. If the world couldn’t get inside us, it wouldn’t exist.

‘However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity,’