I didn't select many quotes from this book, but I think these ones are really worth sharing. Something to make you smile this Wednesday. Enjoy! The children no longer needed her, and the marriage was not worthy of sustained attention. It just ran on, taking care of itself. After twenty years you can't expect passion. …
'The good thing about being a writer is that you take your bad experiences and make them pay' I bought this book at a flea market organized by our friends one Saturday in the summer. Partially because I really liked the cover, partially because it was 50p and partially because I have not read anything …
'We are told not to panic, the most panic-inducing instruction known to man.' This book was one of my accidental acquisitions, I was searching for a book for my friend's birthday and there was 'second one half-price' so I thought, why not. I noticed it thanks to it's beautiful cover, I like green color a …
Jess has not travelled much since Anna’s birth. She has left the field. As a student, she had pictured herself eagerly wandering the wide world. But she has been constrained by circumstance, like many women through the ages, constrained largely to an indoor terrain. Her daughter must come first, and for Jess maternity has no …
Continue reading The Pure Gold Baby – Margaret Drabble – Quotes
This is the first book by Margaret Drabble I've read, but probably it won't be the last. I've had it on my Kindle for a while, it's cover deceptively bringing to mind a summer beach read, with the pram parked on the verge of the beach. As I was spending the last few days of …
I read this book during my vacation in Portugal, after few months coming back to reading on my Kindle (I'd need another suitcase to take all the books I wanted for vacation, so Kindle, as always, proved handy in this situation). I have no idea how this book got there, I have no recollection of …
Continue reading The Girl Who Just Appeared – Jonathan Harvey
It is one of those books that I should have read when I was younger. I have had it for years and for years it has always been pushed down my TBR. Finally I read the Polish edition I own. The book is a story of Yasha Mazur, a Jewish performer/magician living in the late …
Continue reading The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
We all know the phrase 'first world problems', this book reminded me how very first world my problems are. It was published in 2002, so sixteen years ago and a year after Taliban has been overthrown in Afghanistan. Asne Seierstad has lived with a family of a Kabul bookseller, which in her book she calls …
I had this book on my shelf probably for the last 6 years. I've been reading Margaret Atwood's books since my first year in university, I go at a slow pace I probably read one every two years. The first one was Lady Oracle and I loved it, I don't remember much of it now, …
I bought this book during my visit in Persephone Bookshop back in April (when everyone still thought this year summer in London will last only a week, like it did in previous years). I've read so much about it, that I intended to buy it since the beginning. What a lovely book it is, a …
Continue reading Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
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