The second part of the trilogy opened with The Three-Body Problem is even more impressive in its sheer scale. Cixin Liu slowly but firmly divorces himself from the confines of current times and takes us deftly into the future. That is anything but bright. As with the previous one I got this book from my …
I’m no expert on sci-fi, but for me, this was one of the eeriest reads recently. Pushing me out of my comfort zone and making me consider other, foreign to me perspectives. I always believed that good sci-fi asks the question about what does it mean to be human. This one asks many even bigger …
Do you know this awful feeling when you know you should like a book but you just don’t. Sadly this is what my experience with Queenie has been. It’s an important book in its honesty, but I just couldn’t get into it, constantly being pulled out of focus by my annoyance with the main character. …
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 …
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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. …
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