I bought this book towards the end of last year, remembering a fantastic review on What's Nonfiction?. I got a Penguin edition from 1985, so almost my age, and while reading the book I constantly had to remind myself that it was written a while ago. It is a collection of essays that Ehrlich wrote …
This book caused quite a stir last year, it won Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017 and I really like the cover, so when I was visiting Hatchards in January I finally bought it. Very often when a book causes so much noise and I get to it later I happen to be disappointed, …
Traditionally the title: Things I have not Thrown Away. Few months ago I read How I Stopped Loving Design by Wicha and I liked it, then I also heard a lot of good things said about this book, so the first chance I got I bought it. It is a beautiful book, Wicha writes about …
Continue reading Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem – Marcin Wicha
The book is a collection of Solnit's essays, starting with the title one, but touching on many aspects in which women are made to feel lesser and become objects of violence. For me what Solnit does in her essays is track the origin of violence, she focuses on violence towards women, but I do think …
It's one of the books I bought during Christmas period, this one was recommended by Liz at Adventures in reading, writing and working from home. As I was getting ready for the two worst months of the year for me (lack of sun is killing me) I decided I need something uplifting to read. I …
As always in case of foreign books let's start with the title: This is a robbery! A piece of unknown American history. As you can expect it is a book about bank robberies. Marek Wałkuski works as a foreign correspondent for Polish radio Trójka and for years has been sharing stories of various unsuccessful bank …
Continue reading To jest napad! Czyli kawalek nieznanej historii Ameryki – Marek Wałkuski
One of my Christmas gifts! It took me a while to read it, but I made it, my second completed book in German! Very proud of myself. Also I discovered or rather remembered that when I was learning English the first books I read in English were actually Grisham's book, so also sort of crime/court …
Let me start by roughly translating the title: The moon from Pewex. About luxury in PRL. This is basically what the book is about, the author tries to define what was considered a luxury in Polish People's Republic (PRL). I was looking forward to that read, as I lived the first six years of my …
Continue reading Księżyc z Peweksu. O luksusie w PRL – Aleksandra Boćkowska
Hmmm, what can I say...I was not in love with this book. It sounds stupid and probably a bit shallow, but I have problems with books that have too much descriptions and this one definitely had. I understand that the oppressive atmosphere of Manderley had to be built somehow, but really there's no need to …
One of the non-fiction gifts from my mum. It's an essay or a collection of essays, depends how you want to look at it, about bookshops. Carrión travels a lot and during his travels bookshops always take a special place, his memories of some of the bookshops form a starting point of this book. Carrión looks at …
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