Do you sometimes feel guilty about not having read a certain book? It does sometimes happen to me, I admit the older I the more resistant to this feeling I am, but it still happens. This was one of such books. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. We have here a story of an aging …
The Tomb in Seville is one of the books I bought and read in preparation to this year's vacation in Spain. As I write this we have the first really, really cold day in London (t 8 degrees Celsius) and it is difficult for me to believe that four weeks ago I was still on the …
'The good thing about being a writer is that you take your bad experiences and make them pay' I bought this book at a flea market organized by our friends one Saturday in the summer. Partially because I really liked the cover, partially because it was 50p and partially because I have not read anything …
'We are told not to panic, the most panic-inducing instruction known to man.' This book was one of my accidental acquisitions, I was searching for a book for my friend's birthday and there was 'second one half-price' so I thought, why not. I noticed it thanks to it's beautiful cover, I like green color a …
As always with Polish books let me start with rough translation of the title: Komeda. Personal Life of Jazz. It is difficult for me to judge how popular Komeda actually is outside of Poland, so just in case I sent you to Wikipedia. In Poland he is regarded as one of the key figures of …
Continue reading Komeda. Osobiste Życie Jazzu – Magdalena Grzebałkowska
Every once in a while I decide to read a book about current economics and politics. In my daily life I firmly decided to insulate myself from the news, reading it costs me too much, I become agitated, angry and bitter over things I cannot influence (I do vote, if you wondered, so I exercise …
This is the first book by Margaret Drabble I've read, but probably it won't be the last. I've had it on my Kindle for a while, it's cover deceptively bringing to mind a summer beach read, with the pram parked on the verge of the beach. As I was spending the last few days of …
I read this book during my vacation in Portugal, after few months coming back to reading on my Kindle (I'd need another suitcase to take all the books I wanted for vacation, so Kindle, as always, proved handy in this situation). I have no idea how this book got there, I have no recollection of …
Continue reading The Girl Who Just Appeared – Jonathan Harvey
It is one of those books that I should have read when I was younger. I have had it for years and for years it has always been pushed down my TBR. Finally I read the Polish edition I own. The book is a story of Yasha Mazur, a Jewish performer/magician living in the late …
Continue reading The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
We all know the phrase 'first world problems', this book reminded me how very first world my problems are. It was published in 2002, so sixteen years ago and a year after Taliban has been overthrown in Afghanistan. Asne Seierstad has lived with a family of a Kabul bookseller, which in her book she calls …
