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 496 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

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

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • bookskeptic.com
    • Join 496 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