I read this book few weeks ago and I don’t remember all the plot details clearly, but it is one of those books where plot is secondary to characters development. Still a lot of things happen! It is a first book in a series of four, Neapolitan Novels, as they came to be called. The …
This read I owe to great reviews by Lady Fancifull and Shoshi’s Book Blog. Merricat (Mary Katherine Blackwood) lives with her sister Constance and ailing uncle Julian in a massive house isolated from the rest of the village. The rest of her family perished six years before and since then Constance has not ventured outside the house garden. It …
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This book broke my heart. I read it few weeks ago when spring was very far away (now it’s just far away), days were short and probably I was a bit more vulnerable, but this book really got to me. Fiona Maye is a judge in Family Division, she is married, has no children and …
Yay! My first Netgalley! I was always a lonely reader living my reading life outside of the internet, but since I have you my fellow bloggers I learned about the existence of Netgalley (last person in the world, yet again! I'm actually starting to feel special). And since I'm on a booking ban and I …
This one has been on my TBR for over a year, finally reviews from Deepika at Worn Corners and Sarah at Hard Book Habit inspired me to read it. I expected a lot of this book and I must say I was not disappointed. It was one of those books that touch on difficult topic, then …
I have a confession to make about this book, but I'll make it at the end of this post. This is one of random cases of me reading a non-fiction book, it doesn't happen very often, but when it does I tend to be drawn to books about science and scientists. Maybe because I completely …
Two more Christmas gifts. The Stranger by Albert Camus and The Mersault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, the second being a reply to the first. I always though The Stranger is a longer book, also that it would be difficult to read, I was wrong on both accounts. The book reads great, so great actually that …
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I have been a fan of Jo Nesbo for a while now. The beginnings were not easy, the first books of him I read in Polish and translation was dreadful, only when I moved to London I got my hands on English version of The Snowman. Back then I lived on the ground floor and …
This book has been my first surprise this year and what an amazing one! I bought it solely judging by the title, which I thought wonderfully ironic. I didn't know much about Jeanette Winterson, other that I probably should read some of her books. I expected a novel full of irony and sarcasm, what I …
Continue reading Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
hmmm, was it average or bad... I still haven't made up my mind. It was not painful to read that's for sure, I actually read it in a day and a half, my problem is that it was soooooo emotionally not realistic that it hardly made any sense. Well written but lacking on content. Structure interchanging between past and …
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