Skip to content

bookskeptic.com

  • About
  • Reading History
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
  • To Be Read
    • 2017
    • 2016
  • Projects and Challenges
    • 12 Museums for 2022
    • 12 Plays for 2022
    • #20BooksofSummer 2021
    • #20booksofsummer 2020
    • #20booksofsummer 2019
    • 12 bookshops for 12 months
    • #20booksofsummer 2018
    • #20booksofsummer 2017
    • #20booksofsummer 2016
    • Reading Ireland Month 2016

Tag: Flights

Books for the Lockdown – Wise and Calming

On April 6, 2020March 31, 2020 By bookskepticIn Thoughts5 Comments

Week three, how are you all doing? After last week’s dystopian and depressing list, I thought you may be in the mood for something more uplifting. So this week we’ll look at the wise and calming books. Those that transport you, help put things in perspective or focus your mind on other things. A Gentleman …

Continue reading Books for the Lockdown – Wise and Calming

Flights – Olga Tokarczuk

On December 8, 2018December 10, 2018 By bookskepticIn Reviews4 Comments

Flights have won Man Booker International Prize this year, I was very happy when it was announced, even though I have not read the book (it was published in Polish ten years ago, so I had my chance). Now I have decided to read both the original and he English edition. I think it will …

Continue reading Flights – Olga Tokarczuk

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk wins The Man Booker International

On May 23, 2018 By bookskepticIn Thoughts3 Comments

I rarely do this, but it is a special occasion so I will give in to a tiny bout of patriotism. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft has won 2018 Man Booker International prize. She is the first Polish writer to ever win the prize, so it is a special occasion. It is a …

Continue reading Flights by Olga Tokarczuk wins The Man Booker International

Enter your email address to follow my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 494 other subscribers

Present

  • A Pause
  • The Shark is Broken – Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, dir. Guy Masterson
  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
  • A Long Way Off/ Daleko, dalej – Pascal Garnier
  • Charles Dickens Museum – 12 Museums for 2022

Past

Categories

  • Quotes
  • Reviews
  • Thoughts
  • Uncategorized

Tags

#12bookshopsfor12months #20boksofsummer #20booksofsummer #20booksofsummer20 #20BooksofSummer21 #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Andrzej Sapkowski book book haul book review book reviews books Canada Crime crime fiction Elena Ferrante Elizabeth Strout fiction Ian McEwan Ian Rankin Ireland Jeanette Winterson John Grisham Jo Nesbo Julian Barnes Kapka Kassabova Kate Atkinson Kazuo Ishiguro London Margaret Atwood Neil Gaiman New York non-fiction Olga Tokarczuk Poland quotes Rebecca Solnit review round up Shirley Jackson short stories Stephen King The United Kingdom Thoughts Thriller Toni Morisson travel United Kingdom United States warsaw
  • View bookskeptic’s profile on Facebook
  • View @booksceptic’s profile on Twitter

Blogroll

  • bhaktimotta
  • Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
  • http://bookowly.wordpress.com
  • Beyond Eden Rock
  • Thinking in Fragments
  • cupandpaper.
  • Donovan Reads
  • middle, beginning & end – The Book Review
  • Fig and Thistle
  • Distant Drumlin
  • Happily Ever Bookish
  • Savidge Reads
  • cup of tea with that book, please
  • Mike Finn's Fiction
  • thelibrarylizard.wordpress.com/
  • The Daily Post
  • Lady Fancifull
  • The Reading Bug
  • thebookshelfblog
  • madame bibi lophile recommends
  • The Hungry Monster Book Review
  • Reading the End
  • BookerTalk
  • KURTBRINDLEY.COM
  • Dysfunctional Literacy
  • Spiral Spun
  • Disco Demolition Night
  • Lisa Tiller
  • RatherTooFondofBooks
  • Kate Beth Heywood
  • The Novel Eater
  • Tea & Paperbacks
  • Sorry Television
  • Tales from the Reading Room
  • Shoshi's Book Blog
  • Hard Book Habit
  • sunroseclear
  • Iconic Photos
  • ReadandReview2016
  • Read Diverse Books
  • BeeOrdiway
  • Brontë's Page Turners
  • Book Snob
  • The Daily Dosage
  • Words And Peace
  • 120secondbookreviews
  • bookssavetheworld
  • Bits & Books
  • RELATING TO HUMANS
  • Fleeting Brook
  • The Writes of Woman
  • Simoneteffect – Pure Black & White
  • A Note From Abroad
  • Novels & Teacups
  • Lizzy's Literary Life
  • Real Life Reading
  • Ranty Runt of a Reader
  • the knitted footballer
  • The Critiquing Chemist
  • Dream by Day
  • booksaremyfavouriteandbest
  • inkyspells
  • Franklenstein
  • Reading Turtle Duck
  • Consumed by Ink
  • Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
  • Feminist Texican Reads
  • She Reads Novels
  • A reader's footprints
  • The WordPress.com Blog
  • WordPress.com News
  • My Book Strings
  • If Books Could Blog
  • The Bibliophile Struggle
  • The Bookworm Bistro
  • Cleopatra Loves Books
  • mirabile dictu
  • WOCreads
  • bookowly
  • Reading To Remember
  • Big Reading Life
  • CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment
  • The London Particular
  • Simonet – Pure Black & White
  • rants and raves of a bibliophile
  • 746 Books
  • Leaping Life
  • Book Haunt
  • The Book Satchel
  • bookskeptic.com
  • Drunk Off Rhetoric
  • Duchess Reading
  • Tony's Reading List
  • Tincture of Museum
  • Lotus Book Blog
  • Tara Sparling writes
  • London In Photos
  • British Museum blog
  • The Bookish Badger
  • heavenali
  • Worn Corners
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • findingtimetowrite
  • Damn Ugly Photography
  • BaileyBee
  • Laura Broadberry
  • Portobello Book Blog
  • Asylum
  • photospace violetta kaszubowska
  • Cameron Book Reviews
  • The 100 Greatest Books Challenge
  • Adventures in reading, writing and working from home
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • 101 Books
  • Penguin Blog
  • Show This Book Some Love
  • ireadnovels
  • CANVAS & QUILL
  • The Bookshelf of Emily J.
  • Travels Food
  • If You Can Read This
  • FictionFan's Book Reviews
  • The Perks of Being a Bookworm
  • the blue bore
  • theliterarysisters

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • bookskeptic.com
    • Join 494 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • bookskeptic.com
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy