So if you don't fit in; if you feel at odds with the world; if your identity is troubled and frayed; if you feel lost and ashamed, it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud. To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; …
Continue reading How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature – George Monbiot- Quotes
This one I bought what feels like a lifetime ago in Bookmarks in London, during my 12 bookshops for 12 months project in 2018. It was the day of my October bookshop crawl, where the spoils were abundant, I think only now I'm getting them under control. Having just finished Returning to Reims (review in the …
Continue reading How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature – George Monbiot
Yet another one of the books I got in the lockdown parcel from my mum. As I'm still presenting in my aim to read my 20 books of summer alternating between English and Polish ones, I picked up this one as it was a Polish edition. At this rate, I'll soon run out to books …
Vīta brevis, ars longa, occāsiō praeceps, experīmentum perīculōsum, iūdicium difficile. Life is short, and art long, opportunity fleeting, experimentations perilous, and judgment difficult. As always let's start with the translation of the title Deadlock. Resistance, loss, lethargy in art. It's a rough one, but I think reflects the gist of the meaning. It's one of the …
Continue reading Impas. Opór, utrata, niemoc w sztuce – Maria Poprzęcka
This is the third book from my June spree of reading about countries I would not like to live in. The other two were Złote Piachy, about Bulgaria, and North Korea Journal. It's not that I actively have something against Bulgaria or Finland, it's more that they are among many other countries I would not …
Continue reading Kocie Chrzciny. Lato i Zima w Finlandii – Małgorzata Sidz
I think I bought this book from The Book People (it's sadly no longer taking orders), just before the lockdown hit. I liked Monthy Python since I was a kid, certainly, my Bigger Half's obsession with them beats me, but still, I enjoy a rewatch every now and then. This is one of the three …
Life moves in weird ways sometimes. I started reading this book towards the end of May to find some hope as lockdown seemed to extend endlessly and more and more people were dying. By the time I finished it George Floyd has been killed, people took to the streets and the book became even more …
This book started me three-book spur of reading about countries in which I would not like to live. I know it sounds mean, but it's not meant that way. When I think of it, there are not many countries that I'd like to live in, so it's really not only about those three. Also, the …
Just before the lockdown, back at the end of February, we managed with my mum to go for a week in Tenerife. Since then we haven't seen each other and neither of us could travel anywhere. But it was meeting and traveling that usually constituted the things we looked forward to. So in the lockdown, …
Continue reading Detroit: An American Autopsy – Charlie LeDuff
I got this book from my mum, as an Easter gift. Like everyone else we had Zoom Easter, given that she is in Poland and I'm in the UK. Normally I'd travel back once a month, but the current situation has put a stop to it, so my mum is channeling her feelings into sending …
Continue reading Smak Kwiatów Pomarańczy – Tessa Capponi-Borawska, Agnieszka Drotkiewicz
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