Temptation to buy books is becoming greater every day, but thanks to lovely bookish gifts I got for Easter I think I may just be able to persist till the end of the month. Right now I am at the final stages of withdrawal, I think, I go into a bookstore, pick one or two …
What a book! What a woman! I really wish I can retain this kind of energy throughout my life. Diana Athill invites us to chat with her about getting old. What does it mean to her, when did she realized she moved from middle age to old, how she deals with it. As with Joan …
I have always wanted a pug and now I can't have one, because buying a puppy when you are too old to take it for walks is unfair. Brought up with dogs, I am baffled by those who dislike them. They have been domesticated for so long that cohabiting with us is as natural to …
Continue reading Somewhere Towards the End – Diana Athill – Quotes
It was probably one of the last books I bought on my Kindle before the book buying ban and also the last one in my recent non-fiction reading spree. Now I moved on to fiction, again hoping to find something more uplifting, I had the same hopes for non-fiction earlier and no such luck - …
Continue reading This is London: Life and Death in the World City – Ben Judah
What do you do when the impossible happens? When your husband dies and your daughter is in a hospital in a coma? How do you survive? Joan Didion tries to understand how she did it. She does not offer advice or solutions, it is an honest and brutal vivisection of her own grief. It is …
Dear All, this time a short and sweet post. I need your help, recently I have been reading a lot of books about loss and death and grief, probably too many for my own good. Because of that I wanted to ask you for recommendations of something more positive, cheerful, lighter. Anything that you consider …
I have never read anything by Horowitz and it has been a while since I have read Conan Doyle, but I felt like it was time for some lighter fiction reading, after all the non-fiction I read this year. The book is narrated by Frederick Chase, a few years after the events described took place. …
It is one of those almost coffee-table books, but one that you can still hold in your hands without breaking them under its weight. I am not sure I would agree this is the history of architecture exactly, but it definitely involves a hundred buildings. The thing that instantly made me jealous (and possibly a …
Continue reading A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings – Dan Cruickshank
Some books have to be read at the right time to be appreciated. I guess this is one of those books for me. I bought it because 'Hay Fever' was the first play I saw in London and I loved it, so I had some sentiment for Noel Coward. I expected witty stories, with good …
March was way better than depressing February, spring has officially started even if the weather in London tries to firmly deny it, days are longer an I'm finally not so light-deprived. All of this and a week of vacation have contributed to getting me back on track with my reading habits. March was not as …
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