Negroni Book Club

Books worth sipping slowly.

Welcome to my Negroni Book Club — a quiet corner for people who like their stories strong, complex, and a little bittersweet. This isn’t a space for five-star ratings or pretentious summaries. It’s for the thoughts that linger after the last page — the ideas you can’t quite shake, the sentences you reread twice, the way a book can feel like a mirror or a warning.

Each review here is more like a conversation — equal parts reflection, mood, and memory. Sometimes I’ll draw connections to my research or to modern marketing (because, somehow, everything leads back to people). Other times, I’ll just pour a Negroni and talk about why a character wrecked me.

So pull up a chair, make yourself a drink, and read along.

The recent reviews:

Book Review: A Little Life & More
‘A Little Life’ Messed Up My April, A Bit of Poetry and A Great Leader
Reading Anthony Doerr’s Four Seasons in Rome
“Though you are a whole world, Rome, still, without love, the world’s not the world, and Rome cannot be Rome.” — Goethe
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton — the Life of a 30-Something Woman
Book Review aka How This Book Made Me Feel and Think (originally published in February)
Iza’s Ballad: The Book Made Me Go to Budapest - 2024
A book that made me book a flight to Budapest. I guess it was one of the best decisions. Thank you Magda Szabó.

Browse all the book reviews below.

The Negroni Book Club | Notes by Meltem
Literary reflections and book reviews worth sipping slowly — strong, complex, and a little bittersweet. Welcome to the Negroni Book Club by Meltem.