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: Lila

The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante

On April 16, 2016April 15, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews7 Comments

How do I say this? Quickly, I guess - I didn't really like this book. It is the second book in Neapolitan series, I read it right after 'My Brilliant Friend' and while I was in Naples. Maybe that was part of the problem, that I was travelling and couldn't devote as much time to …

Continue reading The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante

On April 7, 2016April 6, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews10 Comments

I read this book few weeks ago and I don’t remember all the plot details clearly, but it is one of those books where plot is secondary to characters development. Still a lot of things happen! It is a first book in a series of four, Neapolitan Novels, as they came to be called. The …

Continue reading My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante

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

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

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