I didn't manage to completely stick to my book buying ban, but I am sticking to my resolution to read at least one Polish book a month. Usually reading in Polish makes it a bit easier for me to get into the book, it feels more natural, but hat was not the case this time. …
It was my first book by Neil Gaiman and I enjoyed it. I do think it is aimed at a bit younger reader, because it sometimes is a bit naive, but enjoyable read nonetheless. An unnamed man comes back to his hometown for a funeral and on impulse revisits places from his childhood rediscovering events …
Continue reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
Because I am still faithful to my book buying ban I get other people to buy books for me. This one was bought by my dear mum, she brought it with her when we went for vacation in March, so its technically hers and I just borrowed it. Within a month this was a second …
Continue reading Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans – Dan Baum
I think this book proved one thing to me - my phase of reading chick lit is officially over. I read it in the end of my teens and I think there is no way back now, I'm way too cynical and my little heart is too black not to get constantly annoyed by chick …
Temptation to buy books is becoming greater every day, but thanks to lovely bookish gifts I got for Easter I think I may just be able to persist till the end of the month. Right now I am at the final stages of withdrawal, I think, I go into a bookstore, pick one or two …
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 …
Dear All, this time a short and sweet post. I need your help, recently I have been reading a lot of books about loss and death and grief, probably too many for my own good. Because of that I wanted to ask you for recommendations of something more positive, cheerful, lighter. Anything that you consider …
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. …
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