For me it was always one of those intimidating books, I felt that by living in London I am somehow obliged to read it and know more about the city that is gradually becoming 'my city' in my mind, but on the other hand it is 800 pages long, there's no denying that. Because of …
I bought When Will There Be Good News? last year in a second hand bookstore, never noticing that it is a third installment in a series. The book sat patiently on my shelf, until during this vacation with my mother I hatched a book laundering scheme, that allowed me to work around my book buying …
Another gift from my dear friend from studies, last time she got me Szamałek's second book Czytanie z Kości, which I devoured in a day. It was no different this time. What I did differently this time was that I refrained from rereading the author's biography, as last time I found the comparison with mine a …
Let me just start by saying that this is a book aimed at specific audience and I fit only partially in that focus group. It is a book for single unpaid carers of and old, disabled or ill person, for people who had to sacrifice their careers, their personal lives and their personality on the …
Continue reading The Selfish Pig’s Guide To Caring – Hugh Marriott
I am definitely not a good reader of blurbs, I don't know how but I managed to miss the fact that this is a collection of short stories, or tales, as Atwood calls them. What is more I didn't realize it until I got to the fourth one as the first three are interconnected, so …
Continue reading Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales – Margaret Atwood
I read this book a while ago, before the #20booksofsummer craze and yet I couldn't get round to reviewing it. I actually think I'll read it again, as soon as the autumn comes, it is a bit more of a autumn book. Our narrator, Krivoklat, is definitely unreliable, he is a patient in a mental …
Thanks to Amazon this title is now all over the place. Finally I got round to reading it, because I wanted to know the book before I start watching the series. Now I read the book and I probably won't be watching the series... When I was a child and I run out of fairy …
Book number six and a first DNF, hopefully also the last one. I got this book from Netgalley ages ago, so long ago that it is really shameful I am only reviewing it now, but it is stuck on my Kindle together with 25 other books I requested in some fit of craziness. Hence my …
Continue reading Shadowboxing with Bukowski – Darrell Kastin
Finally after more than a year my reading of The American Trilogy is now complete. I liked Human Stain a lot, I absolutely loved American Pastoral, so I was excited about this one, I even delayed reading it a bit just to know I have something delicious ahead of me. The premise is very similar …
I heard a lot about this book before I read it, it was hard not to: it won Costa first novel award and was the book of the year 2016. Then there was a lot of positive reviews, which led me to buying it and then it lingered in my Kindle for well over a …
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