Book buying ban is definitely over. I didn't stick to it in April and decided to call it a day, I managed 3 months and that's as long as I could expect. Reading was good in April, I read more serious things than usual, mainly because I was trying to finish the Neapolitan Series and …
Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling on a 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, but when the train reaches it's destination he is found shot dead. Initially everyone suspects suicide, but because Sir Wilfred was an important figure Inspector Arnold from Scotland Yard is called. He initially agrees with the suicide theory, but there are some small details …
Where writers write is an often discussed subject, is it an isolated place or is Starbucks the best. Is writing tower one of writer's basic rights? Or a writing shed at the very least? Because we're all readers I wanted to ask you where do you read? When I was younger I always read in …
After ‘The Story of a New Name’ I needed a break, but I don’t give up easily, so after reading few other books I started on the third installment of the Neapolitan Novels. It was awesome, I devoured the book over a day and a half, I couldn’t stop reading it, I was annoyed when …
Continue reading Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – Elena Ferrante
There are a lot of things in this book, but no power and absolutely no glory. I read it years ago and to be honest completely didn’t remember what it is about, so I decided to re-read it. Based in Mexico in 1930s, it is a story of ‘whisky priest’ being hunted down by the …
The full title of this book is a bit on the long side: The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country; that already explains what the book is about. Helen Russell was your typical always running exhausted, coffee-fueled Londoner, one day her husband was offered a job in Denmark, and …
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I cannot believe it's almost April! Somehow it still feels like the beginning of the year, maybe because I didn't have many resolutions I could break as time passed. March has been full of travels for me, so I didn't have much as time for reading or blogging as I'd like. I love travelling so no …
February has been another interesting month. I participated in Book Blogger Appreciation Week, my first event, I really liked it and thanks to it I found even more awesome blogs to follow. I broke my book buying ban, but I have a good excuse: I am going to Naples and Elena Ferrante books are absolutely …
Olive is special and at the same time she’s like all of us, we’ve all done things we’re not proud of, been mean and even cruel, we all fail to understand what others hold against us. Sometimes we all just get lonely and yet we get on with our life, because what else is there …
Continue reading Quotes from Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories – Elizabeth Strout
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