Abandonment While his back was turned to her she had a cold premonition of rejection, of the humiliation of being left for a young woman, of being left behind, useless and alone. Holding her gaze he said, ‘You know I love you.’ ‘But you’d like someone younger.’ ‘I’d like a sex life.’ Her cue to …
This book broke my heart. I read it few weeks ago when spring was very far away (now it’s just far away), days were short and probably I was a bit more vulnerable, but this book really got to me. Fiona Maye is a judge in Family Division, she is married, has no children and …
I have been tagged by Cassie @rantsandravesofabibliophile for my first book tag! Thank you, Cassie! 🙂 The Rules Mention the creator of the tag (Ayunda @Tea and Paperbacks). Thank the blogger who tagged you! Choose one of the options. You don’t have to tell the reasons why you chose that, but you can also do them …
Sarah at Hard Book Habit reminded me recently that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie created a real-life version of Ifemelu's blog. I think it is a great way to extend the life of characters beyond the book and make the book itself never ending. As it is a Saturday and hopefully you all have a bit more time I …
Yay! My first Netgalley! I was always a lonely reader living my reading life outside of the internet, but since I have you my fellow bloggers I learned about the existence of Netgalley (last person in the world, yet again! I'm actually starting to feel special). And since I'm on a booking ban and I …
I shuffled the quotes a bit, so it is my personal collage of what made me wonder. People were flattered to be asked about themselves and if she said nothing after they spoke, it made them say more. They were conditioned to fill silences. - this is so true, I'm not a chatty person and my …
This one has been on my TBR for over a year, finally reviews from Deepika at Worn Corners and Sarah at Hard Book Habit inspired me to read it. I expected a lot of this book and I must say I was not disappointed. It was one of those books that touch on difficult topic, then …
February has been another interesting month. I participated in Book Blogger Appreciation Week, my first event, I really liked it and thanks to it I found even more awesome blogs to follow. I broke my book buying ban, but I have a good excuse: I am going to Naples and Elena Ferrante books are absolutely …
Book Blogger Appreciation Week was hosted by The Estella Society. It's a great event bringing together wonderful book bloggers. I decided to summarize my first event. I'm not even sure I can say I participated, I used 2 out of 5 prompts, but let's say that counts. One thing I learned during this event is that …
Book Blogger Appreciation Week is hosted by The Estella Society. I chickened out and didn't participate in Day 2 interview, but here I'm back for Day 3. What have you read and loved because of a fellow blogger? Tough one, I joined the blogging community recently and my fellow bloggers for now keep on adding …
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