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Pre-Christmas gifts

On December 21, 2017December 16, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts5 Comments

I happen to have birthday ten days before Christmas Eve, which as it appears is perfect, as I get to get presents twice in December. My dear friends and family recognising that ten days difference is too much to allow for bundling the birthday presents and Christmas presents into one. I have been shamelessly exploiting …

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Santa’s coming to town

On December 8, 2017October 27, 2018 By bookskepticIn Thoughts3 Comments

I was in my family home last weekend and in Poland we celebrate St. Nicholas Day on the 6th of December. It is in a way a prelude to Christmas madness of gifts, on St. Nicholas Day usually children get sweets. My mom firmly believes in treating me like a child, at least partially, I …

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November round-up

On December 2, 2017December 27, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts2 Comments

November was a weird month. I read a lot more than in October, mostly to escape what was happening in my family, for the first time in a while I actually consciously searched for an escape in books. As always reliable friends they helped me, even if my reading was less patient than usually and …

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Spectacular fall on the home stretch

On November 9, 2017October 27, 2018 By bookskepticIn Thoughts10 Comments

I wrote few weeks ago how I finally caught up with all the reviews, that is now officially in the past, I am three books behind again and surely soon it will be four. This however is a common state of affairs, one may even say it was highly unusual to be caught up with …

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October round-up

On November 6, 2017December 27, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts6 Comments

Welcome to my late, short and sweet October round-up. October has been a slow month for reading, actually I think the slowest this year. I only finished three books. Suddenly there were so many things eating up my time that the only time I had left for reading has been commute to work and I …

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The Life of A Book Blogger: Tag

On October 26, 2017October 27, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts11 Comments

I was tagged by Lisa at My Bookshelf Dialogues in her first ever tag: The Life of a Book Blogger. It happened when I was on vacation and then life got crazy, so I am late responding, but immensely grateful for the opportunity 🙂 Question #1: You are a (book) blogger with an X number …

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The weirdest thing has happened

On October 16, 2017October 27, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts8 Comments

I caught up with all my reviews! This has never happened before. I'm reading now White Teeth by Zadie Smith, so it will probably take a while and all of the past reviews have been written and scheduled to be published over the coming week, so unless suddenly I somehow make more time for reading there …

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September round-up

On October 2, 2017December 27, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts2 Comments

September is gone and all pretending that it is still summer has to end. As much as I love summer, part of me is ready for autumn, for the smell of fallen leaves, a bit shorter days, more excuses to stay in and read. What I am dreading is winter, with its completely dark days, …

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August round-up

On September 1, 2017October 14, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts1 Comment

August was a very slow month reading wise, I probably needed to slow down after the manic July and finishing #20booksofsummer a month early, so I took my time with the books I read. Also it probably didn't help that I started some courses on linear algebra and data science, jumping back into maths an …

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How I strayed off the righteous path…yet again

On August 19, 2017August 6, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts5 Comments

It happened, again, I bought books. I did my best, it is my third slip up this year, so not horribly bad for someone who habitually was buying 40 books before each vacation just to make sure I have enough to read. Still, I have to be more and more careful, because it is a …

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