It's been a while since I published my last post, and an even longer while since I wrote one. Somehow April just wasn't good for writing so far, I don't know if it's the fact that spring is so late in coming and I was constantly feeling cold until this week, or if it's related …
Continue reading Where I was when I wasn’t here
I read this book during the Easter Weekend, in a lovely hotel on the Baltic seaside. The weather was far from spring, we actually had snow on the first night and a storm on the lat day, but having a room with sea-view is always amazing. Just hearing the constant roar of waves calms me …
This is my third review of Bator's book on this blog, the two before were Wyspa Łza and Rok Królika, if you'd like to take a look. I mentioned before that I fell in love with Bator's writing after reading Ciemno, prawie noc/Dunkel, fast Nacht few years ago (before I started this blog). Since then …
The first quarter is gone, but I have exactly the same feeling as I had last year, that the year only just started. I hope I will shake that feeling off once the spring finally comes. Officially it is here, but I think no one told the weather. It was an average month reading-wise, I …
And now our Rorschach blur spills into the building of the world's worst-named airport, Vrajdebna. It means 'hostile'. At around that point, I began to suspect that something was wrong with us, or with where we lived. It was the mud. I watched my mother wash the pram from top to bottom every time we …
I bought this book during my February trip to Daunt Books, where I was completely enchanted by the way the books are organized, by country rather than by genre or author. As I never read anything by a Bulgarian author I decided to close this gap and Kassabova's book was a good start I must …
If you are not from Central or Eastern Europe do not try to pronounce the title and the name of the author it may cause permanent damage. The title of this book refers to a political concept known in English as Intermarium (the literal translation would be 'Between-seas') which proposed creating a federation of Central …
