What a book! What a woman! I really wish I can retain this kind of energy throughout my life. Diana Athill invites us to chat with her about getting old. What does it mean to her, when did she realized she moved from middle age to old, how she deals with it. As with Joan …
It was probably one of the last books I bought on my Kindle before the book buying ban and also the last one in my recent non-fiction reading spree. Now I moved on to fiction, again hoping to find something more uplifting, I had the same hopes for non-fiction earlier and no such luck - …
Continue reading This is London: Life and Death in the World City – Ben Judah
What do you do when the impossible happens? When your husband dies and your daughter is in a hospital in a coma? How do you survive? Joan Didion tries to understand how she did it. She does not offer advice or solutions, it is an honest and brutal vivisection of her own grief. It is …
I have never read anything by Horowitz and it has been a while since I have read Conan Doyle, but I felt like it was time for some lighter fiction reading, after all the non-fiction I read this year. The book is narrated by Frederick Chase, a few years after the events described took place. …
It is one of those almost coffee-table books, but one that you can still hold in your hands without breaking them under its weight. I am not sure I would agree this is the history of architecture exactly, but it definitely involves a hundred buildings. The thing that instantly made me jealous (and possibly a …
Continue reading A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings – Dan Cruickshank
Some books have to be read at the right time to be appreciated. I guess this is one of those books for me. I bought it because 'Hay Fever' was the first play I saw in London and I loved it, so I had some sentiment for Noel Coward. I expected witty stories, with good …
Most of people have heard about Le Corbusier, he is usually associated with white modern buildings like the ones below: In his book Anthony Flint tries to present Le Corbusier through his work and to do justice to his ideas. He presents Le Corbusier as a visionary and a rebel, a man with holistic vision …
Continue reading Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow – Anthony Flint
This is a fourth part of the series about Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht, my adventure with the series started from the third part (I somehow rarely start crime series from the beginning). I really enjoyed The Disappeared, so when I saw nearly new Hostage at the #AmnestyBookSale in November I couldn't resist, even though …
First of all let me thank all my fellow book-bloggers! If it wasn't for you, I would have never found the wonderful world of Shirley Jackson. It was the great reviews of 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle' that tempted me. Few months after reading and loving this book I was on vacation in …
Another one of my fantastic Polish crime Christmas gifts. Maybe it was not so much a crime as a psychological thriller. This was the last one of my stash and since I am still sticking with book buying ban, there may not be many more for a while, so rejoice 😉 In a medium-sized town …
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