A retelling of the famous feud on the set of Jaws. Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss we not the best of friends, as the story goes supposedly the tensions were flying high, but it also improved their acting. For us, the result is a surprisingly great movie and an entertaining play about their relationship and …
Continue reading The Shark is Broken – Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, dir. Guy Masterson
The grottiness and expense of London began to get to her; she got tired of gorging on the canapés at literary launches in order to scrimp on groceries, tired of the fuggy smell of cigarettes ground into the red-and-maroon carpeting of pubs, tired of the pipes bursting every time it froze in winter, and of …
A collection of short stories that does not disappoint. Taking us on a trip down the paths where reality meets imagination and the world becomes a bit weird. On one hand, each of those stories is very normal, things that would totally happen to people every day. But then each of them also has the …
A book that shook me to the core. A tale of the survivors of the Canadian residential school system, written by a European immigrant to the country. It renders an outsider’s perspective on the story. Written with an open mind and willingness to understand the culture and society that on the surface feels so tolerant …
Continue reading 27 Śmierci Toby’ego Obeda – Joanna Gierak-Onoszko
Simply by being female I was excluded from the lists of potential usurpers, since no woman could ever sit on the Council of the Commanders; so on that front, ironically, I was safe. My life might have been very different. If only I’d looked around me, taken in the wider view. If only I’d packed …
I read The Handmaid’s Tale a few years ago before this blog existed. It has really shaken me, especially the fact of how easy it would be to introduce the rules described. How very fragile is the balance in which we operate. And in late October I’ve had my worst fears confirmed, for the Polish …
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, …
The reason I decided to write about her in À la recherche du temps perdu is because she is the only person I know who really understands time. Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she’s just sitting on the veranda, looking out at the dragonflies spinning …
Continue reading A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki – Quotes
This book lingered on my Kidle for a long time, definitely since before I started blogging in 2015. Somehow first I could not get drawn to it and then once I started blogging and moved to reading a lot more paperback it really got stuck in the back shelf. But as it happens the last …
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