What a gem! A one in a million book, written in a unique voice. A book that manages to be extremely funny and heartbreaking at the same time. I got it from Bookshop.org so it also made me feel good to be supporting small bookshops. I heard about it a few years ago when it …
It is a weird book. A dreamy love story against the backdrop revolution in an isolated small town. A tale of winter and snow, of dreams and identity lost. A clash of the global with the local. I read it right after reading the social guide to Turkey Turcja. Półprzewodnik Obyczajowy. And it was a …
A weird and dreamy book, that feels a bit like passing through a cloud. It is quite a short one and it reads like a dream. Taking us on a hazy trip through our polarized world. I received it in one of the subscription boxes, so didn’t know anything about the author or the book …
What do you do when after a year of pandemic you still cannot travel? You read of course! I’ve had this book on my shelves for a few months, if not a year, saving it for the dark hour that I knew would come. And when it did, this book was a glorious read. I …
Continue reading Turcja. Półprzewodnik Obyczajowy – Agata Bromberek, Agata Wielgołaska
This is one of those rare wonders: a joyful book about loneliness. Not funny or cheery, but while acknowledging the issues associated with loneliness it also explores the joy it can bring us. I got the book from my mum as an Easter gift. As we had to again spend Easter separately, for obvious reasons …
This book belongs to a genre showing us childhood from a child’s perspective. They always remind me how different the world looked then. How even now when I look at my memories I automatically apply the adult perspective to them. But when I focus I can recall not only the facts but also how they …
Sometimes you come across a book that makes you think: ‘how nice to finally talk to someone intelligent’. And that is one of those books, Głowacki’s ease of storytelling and ability to seamlessly jump from a raunchy anecdote into very serious musings on the nature of the world make this book a pleasure to read. …
I want to say it is a feminist book, but then in a way, it really isn’t because feminism is not the focus here, and writing about half of the population doesn’t make a book feminist. But then it is just in a quirky way. It is, as the subtitle announces, an autobiography of a …
Continue reading Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body – Sara Pascoe
A crazy blaze of lights and life. A book brimming with drama and passion, in an environment not many of us are familiar with. A book that you can feel coming alive in your hand. A true feast of language and imagination. A story of the oppression and revolution in Chile told from a queer …
Continue reading My Tender Matador/Tengo Miedo Torero/Drżę o Ciebie Matadorze – Pedro Lemebel
A book that seems to be positioned as crime fiction, but turns out to be a suffocating family drama with a murder thrown in. A story of complex family relations, seemingly resolved when the family dispersed, but brought back to life when everyone had to once again come together in a small Derry house. Once …
