This is a book I bought at the airport I think two years ago, for some reason it was on the shelf with debuts and I was in the mood to support new authors (obviously a mistake, as this is Gattis' third book, nonetheless it worked). The book waited patiently on my shelf, probably because …
I bought this book during my not so successful visit in London Review Bookshop (here you can find links to other more successful parts of my 12 bookshops for 12 months projects). It was one of the books on the tables and what initially caught my attention was the cover, but then I found it …
I bought this book during my trip to Toruń to see the exhibition of David Lynch, the museum's bookshop had a pretty decent fiction section and had several Czech books in translation, which is rare in Poland, so I grabbed this one to expand my shamefully small knowledge of Czech literature. This book is a …
This book for me marks the start of spring, in the beginning of the year I had a bit of a reading slump, then my mum recommended to me A Gentleman in Moscow that I loved. But this is the first book this year I picked myself from my shelves and read with the interest I …
'I saw something nasty in the woodshed' When Flora Poste's parents die and she realized that her income won't allow her a comfortable life, she decides to live off of her family. The only part of it that replies to her letters are the Starkadders from Cold Comfort Farm. Despite her friend's warnings Flora decides …
As the book is really funny I picked some of the quotes that made me laugh, they should also give you na idea of the kind of humour Gibbons is using. Enjoy! The life of the journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style. You, who are so adept at the lovely …
Continue reading Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons – Quotes
Ever since my mum gave me Noble House to read probably 15 years ago I loved James Clavell's books, interestingly at the same time I was reading Noble House for the first time my Bigger Half was reading King Rat and loved it as well, though I could never convince him to other books by Clavell. …
I read this book over a month ago and still think about its atmosphere. In February I was in a bit of reading slump, reading but feeling like none of the books fully engages me. I could not find a book I would be drawn too, a book I'd want to go back to. When …
This is my third review of Bator's book on this blog, the two before were Wyspa Łza and Rok Królika, if you'd like to take a look. I mentioned before that I fell in love with Bator's writing after reading Ciemno, prawie noc/Dunkel, fast Nacht few years ago (before I started this blog). Since then …
This book is the first of my pre-Christmas gifts I received from my dear friend, that I read. The gift was generally the complete Man Booker Prize shortlist from 2017, with one addition, this one, so you may say I'm starting at the end. My selection was not entirely conscious, I just picked this book …
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