I read Street Without a Name by Kassabova two years ago and it was my first book by a Bulgarian author. After enjoying it immensely as soon as I had the chance I bought Border. But it took me some time to get to reading it. As it often happens, the reason for it was …
Continue reading Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe – Kapka Kassabova
This year I seem to be reading a lot about feminism. For me, of course. Maybe looking for sisterhood, reassurance and expanding but also defining better my own opinions and thoughts by means of mental discussion with the books authors. Either way after reading Born Lippy by Jo Brand I found this book in my …
Continue reading The Guilty Feminist – Deborah Frances-White
This is my second book by Mona Chollet, and I am still surprised none of her writing has been translated into English. The first book was Wiedźmy. Niezwyciężona Siła Kobiet (Witches. The Invincible Power of Women). It moved me, made me angry and pushed me out of the apathy. That's also where I found the …
Mariusz Szczygieł is a Polish journalist, at some point more known from his TV presence (he chaired one of the first Polish talk-shows) in the 2000s he focused again in writing. This is his third book I'm reading. I loved Gottland, his tribute to Czech Republic, blending beautifully the funny absurdities with quiet despair. Nie …
What, then, has caused this transformation? Were some of our friends always closet authoritarians? Or have the people with whom we clinked glasses in the first minutes of the new millennium somehow changed over the subsequent two decades? There is no single explanation, and I will not offer either a grand theory or a universal …
This is my first book by Anne Applebaum. She is a journalist and historian, but this one is certainly written more from a journalistic perspective. What drew me to this book is the fact that Applebaum is closely associated with Poland (her husband was at some point a Minister for Foreign Affairs in Poland). So …
You know all this talking how lockdown brought people closer together and made them nicer? Well, I've actually seen some of it happened in my block of flats, small scale, but there's a difference. I think most of the apartments are for rent, it is London, so you can safely assume no one knows any …
This book has been wallowing on my shelves for eons. I think I bought it during the summer holiday, before moving o the UK, so more than ten years ago. I've never been to a seaside holiday in my adopted country, but in Poland what you will typically find, among hundreds of places to eat …
Another one of my parcel books. Since the beginning of lockdown, I could not travel to meet with my mum. Instead, she came up with an idea of sending parcels. Almost like we are back to the days when the world was too big to travel, but it was ok to send something that would …
Continue reading Czarownice. Niezwyciężona Siła Kobiet – Mona Chollet
I have to admit to a little dirty secret. As I walk in the cites I visit, one of my favorite pleasures, especially at dusk, is looking into people's homes. I'm insatiably curious to see how other people's houses are furnished and decorated. Always amazed by the endless ways we can live our life. And …
Continue reading Odwiedziny. Rozmowy od dizajnie – Aleksandra Koperda
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