This is only the third novel by Jackson, and yet it clearly shows her incredible skill in building atmosphere. A skill that I haven’t seen matched yet. The way she slightly twists the ordinary to make it unnerving, slightly creepy to all the way scary and then back again, as if nothing happened, this is …
It may be a hard situation to imagine, but please try to picture Agatha Christie writing a satirical crime novel about a Polish architecture firm during communism. The book is filled with crazy characters that function in an even more crazy environment. A good mystery with a huge dose of humor. As always in the …
Continue reading Wszyscy Jesteśmy Podejrzani – Joanna Chmielewska
An uplifting if naive take on lives that need changing. Interestingly played between a granddaughter and grandmother adding the layer of complexity that comes with age. A book that means to make you feel good and for the most part achieves it. Yet another book that came with one of the subscription boxes, I don’t …
A damaged family. An overprotective father. A daughter with a new perfect boyfriend. What can go wrong? It is another book from a bookish advent calendar I got from my friend as my birthday gift. The first one was not a roaring success, but since I read it, it got me out of a reading …
It is one of those books that you do judge by the cover. And the cover tells you it is another run-of-the-mill thriller. Now, it can be one of the better ones providing a few hours of escapism, or it can be a mediocre one that will steal a few hours from you in a …
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerfulMary Shelley, Frankenstein A book that combines so many things in it and yet manages to drive a coherent message, or rather a question. Jumping through time and space, through the whole range of emotions, it takes us on a wild imaginary trip. Imaginary as the trip is, …
Continue reading Frankissstein: A Love Story – Jeanette Winterson
It’s really rare that I do not finish a book. Unlike in my daily life, I seem to have an infinite amount of patience for bad writing. This is terrible because I must have wasted hours on books that I did not enjoy, just because of my sheer stubbornness to finish what I’ve started. But …
A satire on the world of tech startups, with some feminism thrown in. The book holds its pace well but misses to gain depth in all the rush. Good entertainment with loftier ambitions. Another of the Books that Matter acquisitions to join Beautiful World Where Are You - Sally Rooney, The Inland Sea - Madeleine …
A western is a popular movie genre, but much less so in the book world. Here we have one that also undergoes a bit of a transformation in terms of the main topics. It is not about cowboys conquering the West. It is about two children of Asian descent being conquered by the West. A …
Continue reading How Much of These Hills is Gold – C Pam Zhang
Supposedly there’s no shame in hard work, and yet work is such a complex notion in today’s world. On one hand, it is supposedly the employee’s market, on the other the work is becoming more and more precarious. Olga Gitkiewicz takes a closer look at what work means in Poland at the beginning of the …
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