Hmmm, what can I say...I was not in love with this book. It sounds stupid and probably a bit shallow, but I have problems with books that have too much descriptions and this one definitely had. I understand that the oppressive atmosphere of Manderley had to be built somehow, but really there's no need to …
One of the non-fiction gifts from my mum. It's an essay or a collection of essays, depends how you want to look at it, about bookshops. Carrión travels a lot and during his travels bookshops always take a special place, his memories of some of the bookshops form a starting point of this book. Carrión looks at …
2017 was a year of a book-buying-ban. It didn't work that well, I had few bouts of buying books (here, here, here and here), altogether I bought 18 books, I got some as gifts, probably more than I bought, but then I also read 90 books last year, so I did make my TBR smaller. …
December has been a very short month for me, I simply didn't notice where it went. This month I received so many gifts that I already posted about two book hauls (here and here) and there's one more post coming about my Christmas book haul. It is fantastic to have birthday in December 🙂 I …
My random adventure with Inspector Rebus continues. This time I came upon the thirteenth book in the series. Rebus seems to have lost it and threw a mug of tea at his boss in the room full of his colleagues. This cannot go unpunished, so he's sent to Tulliallan, a police school, full of young …
I hope you all had wonderful Christmas, that you managed to find time to relax, breathe and think, but also to be, fully consciously be, with your family and with yourselves. I have a feeling I'm late to the party on this one, or at least cutting it very fine, but here's my list of …
I'm sure all of you are super busy preparing for the Christmas celebrations, but if you found a second to do some blog reading I wanted to wish you Merry Christmas! Wishing you calm, lovely and warm time, time to read, time to focus and think, but also time to relax and have fun. Enjoy …
In December I read Bookshops by Jorge Carrión and it made me realize that as much as I love books and bookshops I have never done proper bookshops tourism in London. I tend to stick to the bookshops in vicinity and since I live in Deptford that basically means the local Greenwich Waterstones, which is surprisingly cosy and …
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 …
Ingenious is the first that comes to my mind when I think of this book. Of course mainly due to McEwan's decision on the identity of the narrator. The book is narrated by a foetus. Trudy, the mother, has betrayed her husband and the baby's father and together with her lover plots to kill him. …
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