Is there anything better than an unexpected dessert after a great meal? The story of the Witcher concluded in The Lady of the Lake, but the loose fabric of the short stories gave Sapkowki a way to weave in one more novel into the cycle. We meet our characters once more somewhere between the short …
A long but worthy ending to the Witcher saga. Sapkowski balances between the darkness of the previous book and keeping the pace of the plot. It is always a challenge to finish a tale this long, but it succeeds here in both satisfying our need for closure, as well as avoiding the pitfall of definite …
With our main protagonists still dispersed the events take a lot darker turn. We leave the merry and only sometimes dangerous world of the short stories and initial novels. The world Ciri finds herself in is sinister and hell-bent on destruction. Geralt and Yennefer desperately try to reach her and help, but their efforts are …
Continue reading The Tower of the Swallow – Andrzej Sapkowski
This is the middle book in the series and it feels a bit slower, as we have to track the separate plotlines of our characters. After the disaster on Thanedd they have lost touch with each other and are fighting for survival separately. The events in the world at war gradually pull the further and …
This is the first novel in the saga, and Sapkowski swiftly moves from the dynamic but focused short stories to equally dynamic but a lot more developed plot lines. We meet all our main characters again: Geralt, Ciri, Yennefer, and Dandelion. But also a cast of new helpers that bring their own stories into the …
The second collection of short stories brings us another step closer to the beginning of the novels in The Witcher saga. While spinning the tales of Geralt’s fights with the monsters, Sapkowski, on the side reveals to us the tumultuous nature of Geralt’s relationship with Yennefer. Also, we finally get to meet Ciri, and the …
The seven short stories that set up the world of the Witcher. The six stories are wrapped in the seventh one and together give us the background of what’s to come. We get to meet the majority of our main protagonists but also on their own the stories hold. Each of them a gem in …
As a therapist, I know a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss. But I also know something less commonly understood: that change and loss travel together. We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same. …
Continue reading Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb – Quotes
A look at psychotherapy from an interesting perspective. It’s a book written by a therapist who also became a patient. Lori Gotlieb gives us a glimpse into a year of her life, through the stories of her patients and the tale of her own experience on the other side of the table. Written in an …
Continue reading Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
If this book was an American movie it would be labeled ‘based on true events’. A dark tale about the life of three teenagers in Bydgoszcz in the early 1990s. Just as Poland emerges from communism, so do those boys who emerge from being children gradually into the world of adults. Orbitowski captures them at …
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