I bought this book few months ago on Amazon sale. It came, landed on my TBR bookshelf and patiently waited for its time. It finally came after I read several books in a row revolving heavily around women and their lives. I felt it is time to dive into a different subject matter. And the …
Continue reading The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken – The Secret Barrister
Another book that has been lingering on my shelves for a few years. I read Alice Munro right after she received the Nobel Prize in 2013 and I enjoyed her dreamy, but at he same time matter of fact style immensely. This one is touted as a novel. Which is very unusual for Alice Munro, …
Another one bought from a second-hand bookshop at AbeBooks. With a hideous cover basically consisting of a still from the movie. I've actually seen the movie years ago and liked it a lot. Even if I don't remember much of it now. So I was naturally curious about the book. The story is quite simple …
I enjoy Jacek Dehnel's writing immensely, both his prose (Balzakiana, Krivoklat) and his reactions to events in Poland that he posts on his FB account (some of them later translated and published in the likes fo Guardian). And I've had Lala on my shelf for a few years now, in a beautiful Polish edition. Yet I was …
You know all this talking how lockdown brought people closer together and made them nicer? Well, I've actually seen some of it happened in my block of flats, small scale, but there's a difference. I think most of the apartments are for rent, it is London, so you can safely assume no one knows any …
This book has been wallowing on my shelves for eons. I think I bought it during the summer holiday, before moving o the UK, so more than ten years ago. I've never been to a seaside holiday in my adopted country, but in Poland what you will typically find, among hundreds of places to eat …
Another one of my parcel books. Since the beginning of lockdown, I could not travel to meet with my mum. Instead, she came up with an idea of sending parcels. Almost like we are back to the days when the world was too big to travel, but it was ok to send something that would …
Continue reading Czarownice. Niezwyciężona Siła Kobiet – Mona Chollet
What do you do when you're well into your fourth month of lockdown, your country had just held presidential election won by minuscule majority by a homophobic nationalist, the country you live in is run by a man who blatantly admits that decisions to reopen the economy are made against scientific advice by 'elected politicians' …
Yet another treasure found in the used books section on AbeBooks. And yet again I missed while buying it to register that I'm buying a collection of short stories. Those of you who have been visiting this blog for a while know that it's not my favorite thing. Still since it's just five stories and …
I have to admit to a little dirty secret. As I walk in the cites I visit, one of my favorite pleasures, especially at dusk, is looking into people's homes. I'm insatiably curious to see how other people's houses are furnished and decorated. Always amazed by the endless ways we can live our life. And …
Continue reading Odwiedziny. Rozmowy od dizajnie – Aleksandra Koperda
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