I mentioned several times before that when I need decent entertainment I have few authors I turn to and John Grisham is one of them. His books are reliable, some better, some worse, but all meet a certain standard. This time with The Rainmaker I struck gold, it was a fantastic book. Our protagonist is a …
Continue reading The Rainmaker – John Grisham
This was the only reread on my TBR this year. I rarely reread books, but there are a few firm favorites I try to go back to. This obviously is one of them. I read it for the first time in high school and was roaring with laughter, since then I probably read it four …
Continue reading Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog) – Jerome K. Jerome
It took me a while to review this book. I could not make up my mind about it, to be honest, I still cannot, but I've been procrastinating for so long that finally I decided to start writing and see what happens. The first book by Atwood I read was Lady Oracle, when I was in …
I think this is the only Stasiuk's book I read, I remember few years ago I accidentally went to his author's night and, as it sometimes happens, felt an instant dislike for him as a person, everything he said felt irritatingly arrogant to me. Obviously after that I never felt the urge to read his …
Continue reading Nie ma ekspresów przy żołtych drogach – Andrzej Stasiuk
This was one of the books that I bought in my book-laundering scheme in June, I got it mostly because of the title (The Librarians). It was supposed to be a books showing how the 'real life' in the library looks like, full of tensions, passions running high etc. It was bad, so bad in …
It's been years since I read my previous Maigret, so I happily killed two birds with one stone and read a good crime as well as shrank my all too long Netgalley list by at least one title, making me feel a bit less like an evil person. It was a good old type crime, …
Continue reading Maigret and the Tall Woman – Georges Simenon
I do not have a TV, my friend always tells me that without a telly I cannot fully participate in British culture. Probably she's right, but every time I go to hers and we try to find something watchable on telly we fail miserably. So I consciously decided not to take part in that part …
