I had this book from one of those collections of 20th century classics that at some point were sold together with daily newspapers in Poland. I've had it for years and finally I decided it is shameful that I haven't read it yet, especially that I also only read a few poems by Miłosz, so …
I recently started ordering BuddyBoxes from The Blurt Foundation. Not because I am depressed, but who wouldn't like a hug in a box sometimes. I received two so far and The Little Book of Kindness was in the second one, among other things. It is a small book, I read it over two evenings, but …
Continue reading The Little Book of Kindness – Bernadette Russell
I mentioned several times before that when I need decent entertainment I have few authors I turn to and John Grisham is one of them. His books are reliable, some better, some worse, but all meet a certain standard. This time with The Rainmaker I struck gold, it was a fantastic book. Our protagonist is a …
This was the only reread on my TBR this year. I rarely reread books, but there are a few firm favorites I try to go back to. This obviously is one of them. I read it for the first time in high school and was roaring with laughter, since then I probably read it four …
Continue reading Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog) – Jerome K. Jerome
It took me a while to review this book. I could not make up my mind about it, to be honest, I still cannot, but I've been procrastinating for so long that finally I decided to start writing and see what happens. The first book by Atwood I read was Lady Oracle, when I was in …
I think this is the only Stasiuk's book I read, I remember few years ago I accidentally went to his author's night and, as it sometimes happens, felt an instant dislike for him as a person, everything he said felt irritatingly arrogant to me. Obviously after that I never felt the urge to read his …
Continue reading Nie ma ekspresów przy żołtych drogach – Andrzej Stasiuk
This was one of the books that I bought in my book-laundering scheme in June, I got it mostly because of the title (The Librarians). It was supposed to be a books showing how the 'real life' in the library looks like, full of tensions, passions running high etc. It was bad, so bad in …
It's been years since I read my previous Maigret, so I happily killed two birds with one stone and read a good crime as well as shrank my all too long Netgalley list by at least one title, making me feel a bit less like an evil person. It was a good old type crime, …
Continue reading Maigret and the Tall Woman – Georges Simenon
I do not have a TV, my friend always tells me that without a telly I cannot fully participate in British culture. Probably she's right, but every time I go to hers and we try to find something watchable on telly we fail miserably. So I consciously decided not to take part in that part …
Probably like most book lovers I love reading books about books and books about reading. Writing a book about reading that will be interesting is not an easy thing, mainly because reading is such an individual and subjective act. Andy Miller managed to write an interesting book about reading, a book that gives his own …
Continue reading The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life – Andy Miller
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