I started wondering recently why almost all of my recent reviews are positive. When I started this blog there has been few bad ones, so what happened? Have I finally become a nice person, incapable of saying a bad word about anything? No. I realized since I started this blog I pick my books more …
This book will not count towards my 20 books of summer because I finished it at the end of May. Last few weeks have been pretty busy, so I had to choose between reading and writing and reading won. The main character and narrator of this book is Stevens, a butler at Darlington Hall, that has …
To re-read or not to re-read? This is the question we all probably ask ourselves quite often. I have only a few books that I re-read over and over again. This book was not one of them, but Kira at Sorry Television and Cathy at 746books have reminded me about it and how much I enjoyed reading …
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I think I first read about this book on Simon's blog back in December. I could not buy it for a while because of my book-buying-ban, so I only got it at the beginning of May, shortly before Man Booker Prize 2016 was announced. However, I didn't read the book until after the announcement. Let …
I read the Notes from a Small Island years ago. Years before I ever set foot in UK, or even had the plan to do so, and I'm sure this book partially formed my ideas about Britain. I remember I enjoyed it a lot and laughed out loud numerous times while reading it. Because of that …
I only know Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life that I read two years ago and enjoyed a lot. This is why when I saw beautiful hardback edition of Not The end of the World in a charity shop I couldn’t help myself and got it. It’s a collection of twelve short stories, they are separate …
The full title of this book is one of the longest ones I've seen (not counting academic books of course), so I had to cut it down a bit in the post title, here is the whole thing: Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World. I don't read many …
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing. I have read this book few weeks ago and somehow couldn't bring myself to write the review, but finally here it is. The book focuses on the wedding night of Florence and Edward. We meet our couple as they …
This is my first RK Narayan book, read as part of RK Narayan Readalong hosted by Deepika at Worn Corners. Thanks, Deepika! I had so much fun reading this book, that I'll definitely get the others. After being released from prison Raju goes to barber shop and then to an abandoned temple to consider his …
I picked this book during my recent book-buying-spree, I couldn't make up my mind which one I want to start with and then I thought how everyone was raving about this one. Also I hoped it would be a lighter read than the dark Neapolitan Series. It was, I breezed through the book, faster than …
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