Ciri seemed to achieve some stability during her training with Yennefer in Melitele temple in Ellander, but as we all know this was not meant to last. And this book is bringing us to some explosive climax moments, as one can expect when all out main characters meet in the same building. Just as we …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
All good things must come to an end, or at least so they say. And so does the trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past. This final installment is the most daring in terms of scale. Cixin Liu shows that imagination knows no limits. He deftly navigates between the infinitely small, only to propel us to the …
A gothic crime novel that really wants to be stifling and atmospheric and even pulls it off at times. It ticks all the boxes, to a point that it becomes a bit stifled itself. As many of my recent books this is another one from a subscription box. Unlike many of the other books I …
An eerie and dreamy in one moment only to become very blunt and down-to-earth in another. Madeleine Watts wields the language firmly in her debut novel. It is a tale of crisis, despair, being lost, but also finding one’s way in a world that doesn’t offer much consolation. Personal and climate crises constantly intertwine in …
Can an artist single-handedly impact an entire city? Considering that the city in question is Rome, probably not. But add to the mix an influential politician and you have a recipe for success. Loyd Grossman’s book, The Artist and the Eternal City, charts the path of Gian Lorenzo Bernini through the streets of Rome.
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