Here we are at the second book I bought on Amazon this year (the first being Circe, which I reviewed a few days ago). It was published 5 years ago and yet somehow I found Amazon pushing it on me, possibly because they had it lead their 100 best books of 2014. Either way, it made it's …
Since I started reading more and more paper books I almost stopped buying books on Amazon. It's been ages since I bought any there. Instead, I had my 12 bookshops for 12 months project last year, that stocked my shelves to a point that I probably won't clear the backlog this year. Also as I …
I read this book a month and a half ago and sadly last week's events reminded me I still have to review it. What happened last week you may ask, in the Polish city of Białystok an LGBT march was met with a slew of violence and hatred. You may also rightly ask what does …
I've spent a few weeks in my family home in June and as I finished the book I brought with me I ventured into my mum's library, you'll see several reviews of the books I picked up there. This time I found a reread, I've read Little Altars Everywhere years ago, either towards the end of …
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 …
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 …
'The good thing about being a writer is that you take your bad experiences and make them pay' I bought this book at a flea market organized by our friends one Saturday in the summer. Partially because I really liked the cover, partially because it was 50p and partially because I have not read anything …
'We are told not to panic, the most panic-inducing instruction known to man.' This book was one of my accidental acquisitions, I was searching for a book for my friend's birthday and there was 'second one half-price' so I thought, why not. I noticed it thanks to it's beautiful cover, I like green color a …
Every once in a while I decide to read a book about current economics and politics. In my daily life I firmly decided to insulate myself from the news, reading it costs me too much, I become agitated, angry and bitter over things I cannot influence (I do vote, if you wondered, so I exercise …
It is one of those books that I should have read when I was younger. I have had it for years and for years it has always been pushed down my TBR. Finally I read the Polish edition I own. The book is a story of Yasha Mazur, a Jewish performer/magician living in the late …
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