I cannot pretend anymore that it's still summer. The time has come when I wake up before sunrise and that makes it official for me - autumn is upon us! Being in Spain for the last two weeks of September helped to sustain the illusion that summer is not over, but UK kindly welcomed me …
Continue reading September round-up
Jess has not travelled much since Anna’s birth. She has left the field. As a student, she had pictured herself eagerly wandering the wide world. But she has been constrained by circumstance, like many women through the ages, constrained largely to an indoor terrain. Her daughter must come first, and for Jess maternity has no …
Continue reading The Pure Gold Baby – Margaret Drabble – Quotes
This is the first book by Margaret Drabble I've read, but probably it won't be the last. I've had it on my Kindle for a while, it's cover deceptively bringing to mind a summer beach read, with the pram parked on the verge of the beach. As I was spending the last few days of …
I read this book during my vacation in Portugal, after few months coming back to reading on my Kindle (I'd need another suitcase to take all the books I wanted for vacation, so Kindle, as always, proved handy in this situation). I have no idea how this book got there, I have no recollection of …
Continue reading The Girl Who Just Appeared – Jonathan Harvey
It is one of those books that I should have read when I was younger. I have had it for years and for years it has always been pushed down my TBR. Finally I read the Polish edition I own. The book is a story of Yasha Mazur, a Jewish performer/magician living in the late …
Continue reading The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
We all know the phrase 'first world problems', this book reminded me how very first world my problems are. It was published in 2002, so sixteen years ago and a year after Taliban has been overthrown in Afghanistan. Asne Seierstad has lived with a family of a Kabul bookseller, which in her book she calls …
This is another book that I got from my mother for the International Children Day. As I was in the mood for Polish books and this sounded like a nice and easy read I got on with it pretty quickly. I had no idea who Fogelman is, but the title sounded appealing (rough translation would …
