I do love the title of this book, with its subtle double meaning that is accentuated more and more in every single essay. This book is a collection of ten essays by Winterson on art, writing, reading, creating and collecting. To be honest, I expected it to be more focused on art in the classic …
Continue reading Art Objects. Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery – Jeanette Winterson
As the heatwave scorches continental Europe, the UK finally enjoys a few days of decent weather with the sun. I'm writing this post on my balcony basking in the sun like a cat and finally making use of the reclining chairs I bought in the winter. The second quarter of this year was surprisingly long. …
I've spent a few weeks in my family home in June and as I finished the book I brought with me I ventured into my mum's library, you'll see several reviews of the books I picked up there. This time I found a reread, I've read Little Altars Everywhere years ago, either towards the end of …
I am not a big science fiction fan, though I was lucky and the several sci-fi classics I read were brilliant books indeed. Because of that, the only other book by Dick I read was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. I came across this one while at my family home, as usual, I finished the book …
Continue reading Confessions of a Crap Artist – Philip K. Dick
If we don't count Macbeth, for it's a retelling of a story that is not only about crime, and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, which is a play with genres, not a straight crime story, then The Abominable Man is the first crime book I read in 2019. I find it …
Continue reading The Abominable Man – Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
Let's start with a bad translation of the title, to give you an idea what it's about: Polish ghostology: Things and people in the years of transformation. A bad one, I know... but bear with me. The years of transformation in Poland denote the period when communism ended and democracy started, there are no strict …
Continue reading Duchologia polska: Rzeczy i ludzie w latach transformacji – Olga Drenda
It was one of those books that lingered on my Kindle for years, waiting for its time. It finally came in February, during my vacation on Tenerife. In the last few years I've been mostly reading paper books, so my Kindle typically only gets looked at when I'm on holiday. We're moving to Baton Rouge, …
Looking at my reflection really did soothe me, though I hated my face with a passion. Such is the life of self-obsessed. I was terribly grim and unaffected, unfriendly. Or else I was strained and chipper and awkward, grating. "Ha-ha", I said, "Coming or going, that's me - flat." I'd never learned how to relate …
After reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation at the beginning of the year and being utterly surprised by it and pushed out of my comfort zone I decided to buy Eileen. The opportunity happened during my recent visit to New York, when I finally had some time to go to the Strand Book Store. When my …
This is the last book I had left to read from my Denver book-haul, I bought two books by Haruf for two reasons, he is a Colorado writer and I have never heard of him before. I loved Our Souls at Night, so I had high hopes for this one as well. I'll use the back …
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