I think what I loved most about the book was the fact that it reminded me of the power of imagination in everyday life, imagining stories about objects and people. It's been a while since I have been making up stories in my head about people I see on the street and this book gave …
This is a fourth part of the series about Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht, my adventure with the series started from the third part (I somehow rarely start crime series from the beginning). I really enjoyed The Disappeared, so when I saw nearly new Hostage at the #AmnestyBookSale in November I couldn't resist, even though …
First of all let me thank all my fellow book-bloggers! If it wasn't for you, I would have never found the wonderful world of Shirley Jackson. It was the great reviews of 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle' that tempted me. Few months after reading and loving this book I was on vacation in …
Another one of my fantastic Polish crime Christmas gifts. Maybe it was not so much a crime as a psychological thriller. This was the last one of my stash and since I am still sticking with book buying ban, there may not be many more for a while, so rejoice 😉 In a medium-sized town …
My adventure with A.M. Homes started from the end so to say, I read 'May We Be Forgiven' first and liked it a lot. It started with an earthquake and then spiraled completely out of control. Then at some point I was talking to my mum and she was telling me she has been reading …
This book won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011 and I heard somewhere something about it, so when I saw it in second-hand bookshop the title seemed familiar and I grabbed it. I read it during my crazy January among eleven other books, most of them being non-fiction, so maybe that affected my reception …
I saw immediately that there would be no need to add the word "ordinary," because there would be no forgetting it: the word never left my mind. It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating it, getting past it. …
Continue reading The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion – Quotes
This was again a non-fiction book, quite a lot of those in my January reading stack. I found it utterly fascinating. Before I focus on the book, let me add a word of explanation - PRL was Polska Republika Ludowa aka People's Republic of Poland, the socialist form of the country currently simply as Poland …
Continue reading Nasz mały PRL – Izabela Meyza, Witold Szabłowski
Unlike January, February was an awful month reading wise and not so bad when it came to blogging. I managed to finish just 1 book, I just could not focus on anything with the amount of stress I had at work. My attention span dwindled to one page at a time and then my mind …
Consider, for instance, this sentence, which follows a discussion of a scene in a film by Jean-Luc Godard: 'It is the moment of non-construction, disclosing the absentation of actuality from the concept in part through its invitation to emphasize, in reading, the helplessness - rather than the will to power - of its fall into …
Continue reading How to Really Talk About Books You Haven’t Read – Henry Hitchings – Quotes
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