I only read two books by Barnes: The Sense of an Ending, which I liked, but not loved and Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art, which I loved at the beginning, but it became a bit repetitive by the end (it's a collection of essays, so probably better suited to read over a longer period of time than …
And there was another reason for mistrust. If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had happened then would be coloured by what had happened in between. It was like a country remembering …
I mentioned in my May round-up I have no idea how I bought this book. It was in my Kindle forever, always in the 'fiction crime' folder, so after finishing the Big Brother by Lionel Shriver and in need of something lighter I decided to read this, mainly because it's been there forever. A note …
After finishing It at the beginning of the month I had a bit of book hangover, the world built by King was fascinating and has been my home for two full weeks, so I needed something to clean my palate before next 'serious' book. As I'm also trying to clean up my Kindle a bit …
Continue reading Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death – M.C. Beaton
I had such high hopes about this book, that I guess, some disappointment was certain. I got hooked on Bator few years ago after reading Ciemno, prawie Noc and Chmurdalia. Earlier this year I read The Teardrop Island, a literary travel memoir from her trip to Sri Lanka, which, despite horrible reviews it got, I quite liked. Rok Królika …
It has been years since I read any book by Olga Tokarczuk, I remember in my early twenties I liked the slow dreamy rhythm of her prose, but somehow the older I got the less drawn to it I was. It didn't seem to sit right with the pace of my life, as if it …
Continue reading House of Day, House of Night – Olga Tokarczuk
Finest kind of dope. Book-Valium. - Stephen King, It Valium is probably not the best description of this book, but it certainly is dope, it is addictive. After I finished it I needed few days to mentally leave Derry behind. I do not read many horror books and was convinced to read this one only …
I read many raving reviews of this book, so obviously I decided to give it a go. The book is narrated by ten year old Grace, it's set in the extremely summer of 1976, the action revolves around The Avenue, where one day Mrs Creasy disappears. Grace and her friend Tilly decide to find her, …
Continue reading The Trouble with Goats and Sheep – Joanna Cannon
I didn't manage to completely stick to my book buying ban, but I am sticking to my resolution to read at least one Polish book a month. Usually reading in Polish makes it a bit easier for me to get into the book, it feels more natural, but hat was not the case this time. …
It was my first book by Neil Gaiman and I enjoyed it. I do think it is aimed at a bit younger reader, because it sometimes is a bit naive, but enjoyable read nonetheless. An unnamed man comes back to his hometown for a funeral and on impulse revisits places from his childhood rediscovering events …
Continue reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
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