I read The Hours years ago, and obviously watched the movie. Loved both at the time but have not read anything by Cunningham since then. I found this book in the local flea market, where I picked it up for 50p. Reading it made me realize how I changed as a person. I’m still a …
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This was one of the vacation reads that I read between more serious books. It is the most basic of thrillers. I will be brief about it, because it really is not much to talk about. A daughter of spy parents that were killed years ago in Paris, decides to find out exactly what happened. …
Bookmarks was the bookshop I had planned for October, unlike all the others I visited on that crazy Saturday. This is where I ended my tour, which after visiting four other bookshops did not stop me from buying more books. Bookmarks markets itself as a socialist bookshop and this definitely is a theme that is …
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Flights have won Man Booker International Prize this year, I was very happy when it was announced, even though I have not read the book (it was published in Polish ten years ago, so I had my chance). Now I have decided to read both the original and he English edition. I think it will …
Do you sometimes feel guilty about not having read a certain book? It does sometimes happen to me, I admit the older I the more resistant to this feeling I am, but it still happens. This was one of such books. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. We have here a story of an aging …
November just flew by, at that pace I will completely miss to register autumn this year. At the beginning of the month I had a glorious experience of a flight schedule to last two hours being delayed by 15 hours, they didn't even bother to cancel it, lovely. Then I spent a week in Denver, …
Gay's the Word was my third stop in October bookshop-crawl, it was not a planned one either, it just happened to be on the way from Judd Books to Atlantis. It was definitely less crowded than Judd Books, more like Housmans, just with a different theme. The bookshelves again were beautifully curated, focusing on LGBTQ …
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