This is the third book from my June spree of reading about countries I would not like to live in. The other two were Złote Piachy, about Bulgaria, and North Korea Journal. It's not that I actively have something against Bulgaria or Finland, it's more that they are among many other countries I would not …
Continue reading Kocie Chrzciny. Lato i Zima w Finlandii – Małgorzata Sidz
I think I bought this book from The Book People (it's sadly no longer taking orders), just before the lockdown hit. I liked Monthy Python since I was a kid, certainly, my Bigger Half's obsession with them beats me, but still, I enjoy a rewatch every now and then. This is one of the three …
Life moves in weird ways sometimes. I started reading this book towards the end of May to find some hope as lockdown seemed to extend endlessly and more and more people were dying. By the time I finished it George Floyd has been killed, people took to the streets and the book became even more …
This book started me three-book spur of reading about countries in which I would not like to live. I know it sounds mean, but it's not meant that way. When I think of it, there are not many countries that I'd like to live in, so it's really not only about those three. Also, the …
In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. I'm still making my way through the shortlist of Man Booker Prize for 2017, which I got as a birthday …
I've had this book on my shelves for a few years now. It seems I picked it up on one of my crazy trips to second-hand bookshops. I don't remember why I bought it, but if I was to guess it was probably because I liked Lord of the Flies a lot when I read it in …
I bought this book already during the lockdown. Deprived of a possibility of visiting a physical bookshop, and not really being a fan of buying books on Amazon (the way the books are organized there, and their dumb algorithms make for cumbersome browsing) I ventured to AbeBooks. To my delight and a loud groan from …
After reading a few quite serious books, a mix of fiction and non-fiction, I felt like something lighter. My default genre in those situations is crime, and I do have quite a big backlog on my Kindle. I found I had another book by Rachel Abbott. I read here And So It Begins just before the …
Just before the lockdown, back at the end of February, we managed with my mum to go for a week in Tenerife. Since then we haven't seen each other and neither of us could travel anywhere. But it was meeting and traveling that usually constituted the things we looked forward to. So in the lockdown, …
Continue reading Detroit: An American Autopsy – Charlie LeDuff
I got this book from my mum, as an Easter gift. Like everyone else we had Zoom Easter, given that she is in Poland and I'm in the UK. Normally I'd travel back once a month, but the current situation has put a stop to it, so my mum is channeling her feelings into sending …
Continue reading Smak Kwiatów Pomarańczy – Tessa Capponi-Borawska, Agnieszka Drotkiewicz
