Traditionally let's start from the title: Istanbul. In the fumes of urban absurd. I know, it's an awful translation, but that's all my brain can do today. I got this book from my mum. We went together to Istanbul in 2012 and it was a fantastic trip, we both fell in love with the city …
Continue reading Stambuł. W Oparach Miejskiego Absurdu – Agata Wielgołaska
I felt pretty good, actually. When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. By the time I was fourteen (and shaving twice a week whether I needed to or not) the nail on my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. …
Continue reading On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King – Quotes
I bought this book towards the end of last year when I knew we were moving to a bigger apartment. The idea was that we'll turn the second bedroom into an office and I'll have a 'room of one's own' (another book on my TBR). This was supposed to give me the mental space to …
Continue reading On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King
It is one of the books I bought during my visit to Denver last year. I never read Kent Haruf before, but his books came so highly recommended that I bought two, right away. It took me a few months to get to this one, but now I have to hold myself back not to …
It was one of those books that resided on my Kindle forever. Since I started this blog a few years ago I tend to read a lot more paper books, only turning to my Kindle during vacation. Being a person of consistent habits I read this book during my February break in Tenerife. The story …
Continue reading The Summer We All Ran Away – Cassandra Parkin
As always time flies and as always I remain surprised at that. The first quarter of 2019 if certainly over, all the noble new year's resolutions went out the window a long time ago. Hmmm, not all I am still bravely exercising, but otherwise my strong will proved to be very weak yet again. I …
It was one of the Christmas gifts from my in-laws. I am a big fan of Nesbo, but mostly sticking to Hary Hole series, so they decided to push me out of my comfort zone a bit. They pushed me out of it more than a bit, as not only is the book not about …
I lay back, resigned, and wished my wife wasn't dead. I wished I wasn't lying terrified in a giant bird embrace in my hallway. I wished I hadn't been obsessing about this thing just when the greatest tragedy of my life occurred. These were factual yearnings. It was bitterly wonderful. I had some clarity. But …
Continue reading Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter – Quotes
It took me a few months to review this book (I read it in December 2018), the reason for it is twofold: on one hand, I was dreading reviewing it, as with every book I loved, on the other every time I opened it on a random page to refresh my memory of it I …
Continue reading Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter
I'm still working my way through all the books I bought back in October of last year, so far I read eight of them, also since the beginning of the year I bought only one book, so I am making some dent in my TBR. I bought this book for two reasons: the beautiful cover and …
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