I bought this book during my visit in Persephone Bookshop back in April (when everyone still thought this year summer in London will last only a week, like it did in previous years). I've read so much about it, that I intended to buy it since the beginning. What a lovely book it is, a …
Continue reading Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
After Kapka Kassabova this was my second ever book by Bulgarian author. I'm pretty sure this is in no way a significant sample, but it is also the second one originally published in English, it seems not many Bulgarian authors get translated, but relatively many emigrants get published, which is great. Penkov similarly to Kassabova …
I am definitely not reviewing my 20 Books of Summer in order of reading, in some cases I need more time to digest the book, in others I really have no idea how to review them. In this case it was pretty clear cut. I bought this book last year during my book buying ban, that was …
In those first weeks it was decided between Karel and Marketa that Karel would be unfaithful and Marketa would submit, but that Marketa would have the privilege of being the better one in the couple and Karel would always feel guilty. No one knew better than Marketa how depressing it was to be better. The …
Continue reading The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera – Quotes
The synthetic power of the novel is capable of combining everything into a unified whole like the voices of polyphonic music. The unity of a book need not stem from the plot, but can be provided by the theme. This is not an easy book to review, so please forgive me if this will feel …
Continue reading The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Quite a lot of quotes this time, especially for such a short book, but they show how vivid and multi-faceted picture of Spain Morris paints. The only properly modern big cities in Spain - cities, that is to say, comparable to the metropoles of industrial West - are Barcelona and Bilbao: the one a rip-roaring, …
I am still very diligently preparing for my vacation in Spain in September, you will notice that over the last few weeks books based in Spain or about Spain seem to be a bit of a theme. This book is yet another step on my journey to understand the complex country that Spain is. Jan …
July was a busy month, I have been with my mum to a Rolling Stones concert in Warsaw, which was amazing despite absolutely horrible acoustics in the stadium (but then who came up with the idea of stadium concerts is beyond me, clearly they are designed to echo). Then on the following weekend I happened …
This was one of the gifts my dear mum got me when she came to visit coincidentally close to International Children's Day, the funny thing was that she bought it at the airport because she actually wants to read it herself. No pressure... but read and review faster, dear child 😉 It will be a …
Continue reading A Ja Żem Jej Powiedziała – Katarzyna Nosowska
So an entire coastal gastronomic tradition, it could be argued, stems from that once widespread English trait, unadventurous eating. George Orwell once wrote that it was usually in the most blissful circumstances - Sunday afternoons on the sofa, a belly full of roast dinner with a pipe of shag on the go - that the …
Continue reading Wish You Were Here: England on Sea – Travis Elborough – Quotes
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