Let me start with the physical side of this book. I was very pleasantly surprised when I got it, because it is one of those rare cases of a paperback printed on a very nice paper. It was a pleasure to touch and read. The book is divided into four parts, first three are narrated …
Continue reading Blog Tour Review: Errors of Evaluation – Paola Pica
This is a year of 'firsts' for sure. Welcome to my first blog tour post. The main character of Sugar and Snails is Diana, she is an academic psychologist and has a secret. Her life dramatically changed as a result of a decision she made when she was 15. We meet Diana when her boyfriend, …
Continue reading Blog Tour Review: Sugar and Snails – Anne Goodwin
It made sense for a lot of reasons because in all of Baby’s life, as well as Sethe’s own, men and women were moved around like checkers. Anybody Baby Suggs knew, let alone loved, who hadn’t run off or been hanged, got rented out, loaned out, bought up, brought back, stored up, mortgaged, won, stolen …
I bought this book during my ‘innocent’ Sunday bookshopping spree few months ago, inspired by great review by The Reading Bug. Before I start the review let me explain one thing I am European, which means that bulk of my modern history education focused on WWII and the atrocities that happened then. Which I must …
I started wondering recently why almost all of my recent reviews are positive. When I started this blog there has been few bad ones, so what happened? Have I finally become a nice person, incapable of saying a bad word about anything? No. I realized since I started this blog I pick my books more …
After three weeks of reading the news obsessively, which decreased my attention span to two minutes and made my meaningful reading impossible, I finally bounced back this week. I read three books and it made me think clearer, as a result I consciously try to stay away from the news. Sadly some news cannot be avoided. …
Time for a late round up. June was not great reading wise, I have been busy with other things and trying to spend every second when the sun showed up outside (this is not that many seconds in London). I managed to read only five books, but I liked them all, so that's a good …
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