February is over and I couldn't be happier about it. Traditionally February is the worst month of the year for me, so at least it has the advantage of being short. Compared to last February this year has been a bit better reading-wise, I managed to finish five books. It has been a very varied month …
This is very surprising, the second month and I managed to stick to my new year's resolution! I visited the second bookshop on my list - Daunt Books. I left work a bit earlier to be able to go to Marylebone on my way to the airport (weekend at home). It's been ages since I've …
Continue reading Daunt Books – 12 bookshops for 12 months – February
I'm happy that January is over, as now I only have one more month of darkness to survive! January went quite quickly and despite the lack of sun relatively painlessly (especially if you consider that it is traditionally one of the two worst months in a year for me). Reading-wise it was not a bad …
As blue Monday is not yet upon us I still managed to stick to at least one of my resolutions - last Sunday I started my 12 bookshops for 12 months tour of London bookshops, as Hatchards (booksellers since 1797). The day was unbelievably sunny, blue skies and not a single cloud, but also really …
Continue reading Hatchards – 12 bookshops for 12 months – January
I already shared all the books I received and bought in 2017, apart from the Christmas ones, so here we are. I had to resort to a very 'corporate' verb acquired, as I failed yet again and bought three books in December. I do not regret this, I'm sure those will be amazing reads. What …
2017 was a year of a book-buying-ban. It didn't work that well, I had few bouts of buying books (here, here, here and here), altogether I bought 18 books, I got some as gifts, probably more than I bought, but then I also read 90 books last year, so I did make my TBR smaller. …
December has been a very short month for me, I simply didn't notice where it went. This month I received so many gifts that I already posted about two book hauls (here and here) and there's one more post coming about my Christmas book haul. It is fantastic to have birthday in December 🙂 I …
I hope you all had wonderful Christmas, that you managed to find time to relax, breathe and think, but also to be, fully consciously be, with your family and with yourselves. I have a feeling I'm late to the party on this one, or at least cutting it very fine, but here's my list of …
I'm sure all of you are super busy preparing for the Christmas celebrations, but if you found a second to do some blog reading I wanted to wish you Merry Christmas! Wishing you calm, lovely and warm time, time to read, time to focus and think, but also time to relax and have fun. Enjoy …
In December I read Bookshops by Jorge Carrión and it made me realize that as much as I love books and bookshops I have never done proper bookshops tourism in London. I tend to stick to the bookshops in vicinity and since I live in Deptford that basically means the local Greenwich Waterstones, which is surprisingly cosy and …
