Traditionally the title: Things I have not Thrown Away. Few months ago I read How I Stopped Loving Design by Wicha and I liked it, then I also heard a lot of good things said about this book, so the first chance I got I bought it. It is a beautiful book, Wicha writes about …
Continue reading Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem – Marcin Wicha
The book is a collection of Solnit's essays, starting with the title one, but touching on many aspects in which women are made to feel lesser and become objects of violence. For me what Solnit does in her essays is track the origin of violence, she focuses on violence towards women, but I do think …
As always in case of foreign books let's start with the title: This is a robbery! A piece of unknown American history. As you can expect it is a book about bank robberies. Marek Wałkuski works as a foreign correspondent for Polish radio Trójka and for years has been sharing stories of various unsuccessful bank …
Continue reading To jest napad! Czyli kawalek nieznanej historii Ameryki – Marek Wałkuski
Let me start by roughly translating the title: The moon from Pewex. About luxury in PRL. This is basically what the book is about, the author tries to define what was considered a luxury in Polish People's Republic (PRL). I was looking forward to that read, as I lived the first six years of my …
Continue reading Księżyc z Peweksu. O luksusie w PRL – Aleksandra Boćkowska
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 …
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 …
I am in a bit of a pickle about this book. I am definitely not an expert in self-help books, I maybe read one or two others during my reading career, so I cannot compare it to its peers. While I liked some things about it I really found many other things annoying. It was …
Continue reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k – Sarah Knight
Let me first translate the title, it is important (as it usually happens with titles) How I Stopped Loving Design, now let me also add that Wicha is a graphic designer. You get the picture now, or a beginning of one. In the first chapter Wicha describes how he struggled to find aesthetically acceptable urn …
Continue reading Jak Przestałem Kochać Design – Marcin Wicha
I had this book from one of those collections of 20th century classics that at some point were sold together with daily newspapers in Poland. I've had it for years and finally I decided it is shameful that I haven't read it yet, especially that I also only read a few poems by Miłosz, so …
I recently started ordering BuddyBoxes from The Blurt Foundation. Not because I am depressed, but who wouldn't like a hug in a box sometimes. I received two so far and The Little Book of Kindness was in the second one, among other things. It is a small book, I read it over two evenings, but …
Continue reading The Little Book of Kindness – Bernadette Russell
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