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Why I’m not writing bad reviews anymore?

On July 19, 2016July 16, 2016 By bookskepticIn Thoughts11 Comments

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 …

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Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

On June 26, 2016April 10, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews12 Comments

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 …

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Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl

On June 18, 2016June 25, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews10 Comments

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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The Vegetarian – Han Kang

On June 11, 2016June 18, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews9 Comments

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 …

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The Road to Little Dribbling – Bill Bryson

On June 4, 2016April 10, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews4 Comments

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 …

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Not the End of the World – Kate Atkinson

On May 29, 2016May 29, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews12 Comments

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 …

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Stuff Matters – Mark Miodownik

On May 25, 2016May 21, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews6 Comments

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 …

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On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan

On May 21, 2016May 21, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews13 Comments

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 …

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The Guide – RK Narayan

On May 15, 2016May 15, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews4 Comments

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 …

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A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler

On May 7, 2016May 4, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews4 Comments

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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