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Tag: Jorge Carrión

Bookshops – Jorge Carrión

On January 8, 2018December 27, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

One of the non-fiction gifts from my mum. It's an essay or a collection of essays, depends how you want to look at it, about bookshops. Carrión travels a lot and during his travels bookshops always take a special place, his memories of some of the bookshops form a starting point of this book. Carrión looks at …

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December round-up

On January 4, 2018October 27, 2018 By bookskepticIn ThoughtsLeave a comment

December has been a very short month for me, I simply didn't notice where it went. This month I received so many gifts that I already posted about two book hauls (here and here) and there's one more post coming about my Christmas book haul. It is fantastic to have birthday in December 🙂 I …

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Santa’s coming to town

On December 8, 2017October 27, 2018 By bookskepticIn Thoughts3 Comments

I was in my family home last weekend and in Poland we celebrate St. Nicholas Day on the 6th of December. It is in a way a prelude to Christmas madness of gifts, on St. Nicholas Day usually children get sweets. My mom firmly believes in treating me like a child, at least partially, I …

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