Parenthood, it seems makes you nervous for the rest of your life. Even when your daughter is twenty and full of cheerful, impenetrable rage and not doing at all well in Boston, 240 miles away. He says, „Something seems to be going on with Bette.” „Rice?” How many other Bettes were at the party? How …
I read The Hours years ago, and obviously watched the movie. Loved both at the time but have not read anything by Cunningham since then. I found this book in the local flea market, where I picked it up for 50p. Reading it made me realize how I changed as a person. I’m still a …
This was one of the vacation reads that I read between more serious books. It is the most basic of thrillers. I will be brief about it, because it really is not much to talk about. A daughter of spy parents that were killed years ago in Paris, decides to find out exactly what happened. …
Bookmarks was the bookshop I had planned for October, unlike all the others I visited on that crazy Saturday. This is where I ended my tour, which after visiting four other bookshops did not stop me from buying more books. Bookmarks markets itself as a socialist bookshop and this definitely is a theme that is …
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Flights have won Man Booker International Prize this year, I was very happy when it was announced, even though I have not read the book (it was published in Polish ten years ago, so I had my chance). Now I have decided to read both the original and he English edition. I think it will …
Do you sometimes feel guilty about not having read a certain book? It does sometimes happen to me, I admit the older I the more resistant to this feeling I am, but it still happens. This was one of such books. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. We have here a story of an aging …
November just flew by, at that pace I will completely miss to register autumn this year. At the beginning of the month I had a glorious experience of a flight schedule to last two hours being delayed by 15 hours, they didn't even bother to cancel it, lovely. Then I spent a week in Denver, …
Gay's the Word was my third stop in October bookshop-crawl, it was not a planned one either, it just happened to be on the way from Judd Books to Atlantis. It was definitely less crowded than Judd Books, more like Housmans, just with a different theme. The bookshelves again were beautifully curated, focusing on LGBTQ …
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After a relatively calm and travel-free October, November saw me going to the US second time in my life and the second time in three months. As this trip took away two out of four November weekends I was not sure if I'll have a chance to get to my planned bookshop: John Sandoe Books. As …
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The Tomb in Seville is one of the books I bought and read in preparation to this year's vacation in Spain. As I write this we have the first really, really cold day in London (t 8 degrees Celsius) and it is difficult for me to believe that four weeks ago I was still on the …
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