This is the fourth of my Cyprus crime/thriller reads. Previous installments were: The Winner by David Baldacci, Camino Island by John Grisham, and Run Away by Harlan Coben. So far Grisham and Coben came out as equals. But let’s be honest John le Carré is in a class of his own. I read his Tinker, …
You know this annoying situation when you’re at the airport and still have over an hour to your flight and you finish the book you had with you? Well, this happened to me recently, so I did the only reasonable thing and went to the airport bookshop. As always the selection is pretty skewed, but …
Continue reading Łódź. Miasto po przejściach – Wojciech Górecki, Bartosz Józefiak
The third of my Cyprus holiday crime/thriller reads. The previous two were The Winner by David Baldacci and Camino Island by John Grisham. Coben is the third writer I do fall back on when in need of not too challenging entertainment. He certainly knows how to come up with a twist in the story and …
Back in July I was getting a bit restless staying at home and not being able to go to a bookshop. I hate buying paper books on Amazon, their search engine and browsing is pathetic. AbeBooks is a bit better but nothing online will ever replace the joy of a random find in a physical …
Continue reading The Adventures of China Iron – Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Another victim of my Cyprus holiday streak of crime/thriller reading. The first one was The Winner by David Baldacci. I've mentioned a few times already that John Grisham is one of those writers who I fall back on if in need of a decent, but no too challenging entertainment. He has ups and downs, but …
The weeks went by in the Village in the Valley, and I felt dark and heavy like the plums in the abandoned gardens. The sizzle of insects intensified with the fragrant decay of summer. I didn’t even have the motivation to take myself to the beach anymore. My sense of impasse was mixed with languor, …
Continue reading Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe – Kapka Kassabova – Quotes
I read Street Without a Name by Kassabova two years ago and it was my first book by a Bulgarian author. After enjoying it immensely as soon as I had the chance I bought Border. But it took me some time to get to reading it. As it often happens, the reason for it was …
Continue reading Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe – Kapka Kassabova
In October I , with my Bigger Half, we were lucky enough to travel to Cyprus. I'll spare you all the joyful details of getting a Covid test privately in London, within a specific window of 72 hrs before travel. What it meant though is that I turned to my Kindle for reading matter, as …
Before finally going to my family home in August (after six months of not seeing my mum) I succumbed and ordered subscriptions for three book boxes. One of the was with How Novel. It was the first to arrive, as I signed up just before their cut off date for book selection. The premise is …
Just because we’ve been hardwired to be self-critical and distracted by meaningless, unattainable goals doesn’t mean we aren’t feminists. It’s one reason we need feminism! We’re allowed to acknowledge, to try to reverse and even laugh at our own cultural brainwashing while we tackle the big stuff. When I first wrote this list, I did …
Continue reading The Guilty Feminist – Deborah Frances-White – Quotes
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