I mentioned several times before that when I need decent entertainment I have few authors I turn to and John Grisham is one of them. His books are reliable, some better, some worse, but all meet a certain standard. This time with The Rainmaker I struck gold, it was a fantastic book. Our protagonist is a …
Harris and I would go down in the morning, and take the boat up to Chertsey, and George, who would not be able to get away from the City till the afternoon (George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him …
Continue reading Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome – Quotes
This was the only reread on my TBR this year. I rarely reread books, but there are a few firm favorites I try to go back to. This obviously is one of them. I read it for the first time in high school and was roaring with laughter, since then I probably read it four …
Continue reading Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog) – Jerome K. Jerome
It took me a while to review this book. I could not make up my mind about it, to be honest, I still cannot, but I've been procrastinating for so long that finally I decided to start writing and see what happens. The first book by Atwood I read was Lady Oracle, when I was in …
This was one of the books that I bought in my book-laundering scheme in June, I got it mostly because of the title (The Librarians). It was supposed to be a books showing how the 'real life' in the library looks like, full of tensions, passions running high etc. It was bad, so bad in …
It's been years since I read my previous Maigret, so I happily killed two birds with one stone and read a good crime as well as shrank my all too long Netgalley list by at least one title, making me feel a bit less like an evil person. It was a good old type crime, …
Continue reading Maigret and the Tall Woman – Georges Simenon
I do not have a TV, my friend always tells me that without a telly I cannot fully participate in British culture. Probably she's right, but every time I go to hers and we try to find something watchable on telly we fail miserably. So I consciously decided not to take part in that part …
I bought When Will There Be Good News? last year in a second hand bookstore, never noticing that it is a third installment in a series. The book sat patiently on my shelf, until during this vacation with my mother I hatched a book laundering scheme, that allowed me to work around my book buying …
Another gift from my dear friend from studies, last time she got me Szamałek's second book Czytanie z Kości, which I devoured in a day. It was no different this time. What I did differently this time was that I refrained from rereading the author's biography, as last time I found the comparison with mine a …
“Do you think we’re brittle?” she’s been known to ask him. Terrific sense of humour is one thing, but brittle is another. “Of course we’re brittle,” he has answered. “We were born brittle! But seek the bright side: you can’t have much taste unless you’re brittle.” He doesn’t add that Jorrie fails to have much …
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