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 …
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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 …
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 …
This book is the first of my pre-Christmas gifts I received from my dear friend, that I read. The gift was generally the complete Man Booker Prize shortlist from 2017, with one addition, this one, so you may say I'm starting at the end. My selection was not entirely conscious, I just picked this book …
This is a second installment of something that looks like it is going to become a crime series. I read the first book, Tajemnica Domu Helclów, in December 2016, and during my recent visit in Toruń I found the second book in a bookshop. Our main character and self-proclaimed investigator is the wife of professor …
I bought this book towards the end of last year, remembering a fantastic review on What's Nonfiction?. I got a Penguin edition from 1985, so almost my age, and while reading the book I constantly had to remind myself that it was written a while ago. It is a collection of essays that Ehrlich wrote …
