I enjoy Jacek Dehnel's writing immensely, both his prose (Balzakiana, Krivoklat) and his reactions to events in Poland that he posts on his FB account (some of them later translated and published in the likes fo Guardian). And I've had Lala on my shelf for a few years now, in a beautiful Polish edition. Yet I was …
You know all this talking how lockdown brought people closer together and made them nicer? Well, I've actually seen some of it happened in my block of flats, small scale, but there's a difference. I think most of the apartments are for rent, it is London, so you can safely assume no one knows any …
This book has been wallowing on my shelves for eons. I think I bought it during the summer holiday, before moving o the UK, so more than ten years ago. I've never been to a seaside holiday in my adopted country, but in Poland what you will typically find, among hundreds of places to eat …
Another year completed! This one quite unique given we were all still at least in semi-lockdown as the COVID-19 virus raged across the world. The world and our lives have become a bit smaller, with no access to far and wide travel, but books and the Internet remain our amazing windows to the world. Cathy …
Another one of my parcel books. Since the beginning of lockdown, I could not travel to meet with my mum. Instead, she came up with an idea of sending parcels. Almost like we are back to the days when the world was too big to travel, but it was ok to send something that would …
Continue reading Czarownice. Niezwyciężona Siła Kobiet – Mona Chollet
What do you do when you're well into your fourth month of lockdown, your country had just held presidential election won by minuscule majority by a homophobic nationalist, the country you live in is run by a man who blatantly admits that decisions to reopen the economy are made against scientific advice by 'elected politicians' …
Yet another treasure found in the used books section on AbeBooks. And yet again I missed while buying it to register that I'm buying a collection of short stories. Those of you who have been visiting this blog for a while know that it's not my favorite thing. Still since it's just five stories and …
I have to admit to a little dirty secret. As I walk in the cites I visit, one of my favorite pleasures, especially at dusk, is looking into people's homes. I'm insatiably curious to see how other people's houses are furnished and decorated. Always amazed by the endless ways we can live our life. And …
Continue reading Odwiedziny. Rozmowy od dizajnie – Aleksandra Koperda
So if you don't fit in; if you feel at odds with the world; if your identity is troubled and frayed; if you feel lost and ashamed, it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud. To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; …
Continue reading How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature – George Monbiot- Quotes
This one I bought what feels like a lifetime ago in Bookmarks in London, during my 12 bookshops for 12 months project in 2018. It was the day of my October bookshop crawl, where the spoils were abundant, I think only now I'm getting them under control. Having just finished Returning to Reims (review in the …
Continue reading How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature – George Monbiot
