I'm glad I've stumbled upon this website. I'm looking forwards to reading what you have to say when I have some more time on my hands 
I love the felling of this website. I will definitely return to get more book recommendations.
I've gone down such a big rabbit hole about what a "personal internet" is, and somehow came across your website! I love the comfy vibes you have here - helpful when I try to create my own cozy, slower corner of the internet (I think mine's a bit too professional rn... 
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Very neat cite! Love the entries and the photograph is very beautiful!
very cosy website, thank you for sharing with us some snippets of what you find interesting
I sent a message about your review to the bookbug discord but realized you weren't there! Then I realized you'd left a message on my guestbook too
But I loved your review especially this part:
"Dr. B's desperation to learn chess in the first place, while confined alone in the literal empty space created by the Nazi captors, may reflect the desperation of the German public in the wake of the vacuum that Hitler created as he sought to destroy cultural institutions he saw as antithetical to his propagandistic German vision. Upon literally stealing the rules of the game from a Nazi guard, and desperate for some challenge in what becomes a cultural and intellectual vacuum, Dr. B becomes entirely focused on playing chess. In response to the totalitarian regime, Dr. B becomes totally absorbed in responding to it."
I didn't even realize this part of the story while reading it because I was so caught up in everything else, but wow. Dr. B's obsession with chess (a game about war) being like a metaphor for how war (or war in general) takes over the lives of citizens and makes it part of their every thought because there's no escape from it. I'm going to ponder over that one on my third read.
Thanks for the recs you left in my guestbook on my page <3 I actually read The Haunting of Hill House some two years ago and loved it, and I will definitely get to The Tunnel sometime!
It's so nice to meet another fellow reader and urbanist, sending you warm hugs 