There was a lot of hype about this book, so finally I caved and bought it. I read it as a break from my pretty depressing reading Ireland month. It was yet another non-fiction book for me in 2016, not a common thing for me. It is a book about overcoming depression, so I was …
The novel starts with a funeral of Molly Lane. Clive and Vernon, her former lovers, meet and chat about her husband George and another one of her lovers a right-wing Foreign Secretary Julian Garmony, who is about to challenge party leadership and become a prime minister. Clive and Vernon despise both the controlling and possessive …
2016 is gone, I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing, but let's not dwell on that, looking forward is probably the best way now. December was not easy reading-wise, I changed work, there was travelling home for Christmas and catching up with family and friends, so not much time left for …
I rarely review Polish books I read, if they don't have an English translation available, I'm not hiding them, I just don't want to tease you and I don't think learning Polish just to read them in original version is really an option. In this case I decided to make an exception, because I'd like …
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I generally do not like interacting with people a lot. I was shy as a child and when I grew up I came to believe that small talk is for small people. That's not to say I don't have friends or I hate people, just that meeting new people is an effort for me and …
This was my Christmas gift for myself. I read Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? at the beginning of the year and loved it, I still have to get to Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, so this was my second book by Jeanette Winterson. The full title is Christmas Days: 12 Stories an 12 Feasts for …
Towards the end of the year, just like everyone and their dog I decided to look back at what I read this year. What I liked, what didn't go that well, the treasures I was happy to find. Here's my subjective list ob the best and the worst. 7 besties in random order: We Have …
I do not know the truth, or I do not know how to tell the truth. All I have is stories, night thoughts, the sudden conviction that uncertainty spawns. All I have are ravings, more like. She loved him! I say. She must have loved him! I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when …
This book starts with an emotional earthquake and from then on keeps the tension all the way to the end. Veronica Hegarty has to tell her mother that her brother, Liam, is dead. Veronica is shocked and grieving herself and now she has to inflict this news on her mother, but at the same time …
were we so blind to the world teetering on the edge that we never straightened up from what we were doing to consider things more clearly or have we lost completely that brute instinct for catastrophe, that sensitivity now buried too deep beneath reason and manners to register but which, once upon a time, was …
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