I am definitely not a good reader of blurbs, I don't know how but I managed to miss the fact that this is a collection of short stories, or tales, as Atwood calls them. What is more I didn't realize it until I got to the fourth one as the first three are interconnected, so …
Continue reading Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales – Margaret Atwood
I read this book a while ago, before the #20booksofsummer craze and yet I couldn't get round to reviewing it. I actually think I'll read it again, as soon as the autumn comes, it is a bit more of a autumn book. Our narrator, Krivoklat, is definitely unreliable, he is a patient in a mental …
Thanks to Amazon this title is now all over the place. Finally I got round to reading it, because I wanted to know the book before I start watching the series. Now I read the book and I probably won't be watching the series... When I was a child and I run out of fairy …
Book number six and a first DNF, hopefully also the last one. I got this book from Netgalley ages ago, so long ago that it is really shameful I am only reviewing it now, but it is stuck on my Kindle together with 25 other books I requested in some fit of craziness. Hence my …
Continue reading Shadowboxing with Bukowski – Darrell Kastin
Finally after more than a year my reading of The American Trilogy is now complete. I liked Human Stain a lot, I absolutely loved American Pastoral, so I was excited about this one, I even delayed reading it a bit just to know I have something delicious ahead of me. The premise is very similar …
I heard a lot about this book before I read it, it was hard not to: it won Costa first novel award and was the book of the year 2016. Then there was a lot of positive reviews, which led me to buying it and then it lingered in my Kindle for well over a …
I read this after finishing the awful A Family Affair, because I needed something light, but not stupid or horrible and I remembered Grisham from my early twenties to be dependable in that respect. It was the same this time, while it's not the best Grisham I've read, it was still readable (and didn't include any …
This book was a first for me for two reasons: my first Elizabeth von Arnim and my first Virago Modern Classic. Both widely recommended by other book bloggers, so as usually I am late to the party. But i is because of those recommendations that I grabbed this book in a second hand bookshop as …
Continue reading Elizabeth and Her German Garden – Elizabeth von Arnim
Just a quick selection of sentences that caught my attention, on family and on our relationship with food. Enjoy and let me know what you think in comments! Do you think we know how to eat or is it something we lost and need to learn again? How much do we owe to other members …
We Need to Talk About Kevin has been on my TBR for two years now, but I'm dreading it a bit, either I'll hate the epistolary form, or it will be an amazing book and devastating because of that. Stuck in this conundrum I decided to start easy and got on to Big Brother. Pandora and …
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