We all know the phrase 'first world problems', this book reminded me how very first world my problems are. It was published in 2002, so sixteen years ago and a year after Taliban has been overthrown in Afghanistan. Asne Seierstad has lived with a family of a Kabul bookseller, which in her book she calls …
This is another book that I got from my mother for the International Children Day. As I was in the mood for Polish books and this sounded like a nice and easy read I got on with it pretty quickly. I had no idea who Fogelman is, but the title sounded appealing (rough translation would …
I had this book on my shelf probably for the last 6 years. I've been reading Margaret Atwood's books since my first year in university, I go at a slow pace I probably read one every two years. The first one was Lady Oracle and I loved it, I don't remember much of it now, …
Another book that I got from my mother, she knows I liked Mrożek's short stories when I read some of them for the first time in high school and this collection was just too good to pass. The word for word translation of the title is 'Chocolates for the chairman/CEO' and it is a collection of …
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, …
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