It is not a self-help book, but sometimes it hits similar notes. Justyna Mazur, Polish blogger and podcaster, shares with her readers the eleven times in her life that felt like the end of the world. Since she wrote the book you can safely assume she overcame them, to share the experience. I got this …
It may be a hard situation to imagine, but please try to picture Agatha Christie writing a satirical crime novel about a Polish architecture firm during communism. The book is filled with crazy characters that function in an even more crazy environment. A good mystery with a huge dose of humor. As always in the …
Continue reading Wszyscy Jesteśmy Podejrzani – Joanna Chmielewska
Supposedly there’s no shame in hard work, and yet work is such a complex notion in today’s world. On one hand, it is supposedly the employee’s market, on the other the work is becoming more and more precarious. Olga Gitkiewicz takes a closer look at what work means in Poland at the beginning of the …
Sometimes you come across a book that makes you think: ‘how nice to finally talk to someone intelligent’. And that is one of those books, Głowacki’s ease of storytelling and ability to seamlessly jump from a raunchy anecdote into very serious musings on the nature of the world make this book a pleasure to read. …
Yet another one of my Christmas gifts of 2020. They were definitely the highlight of my year. My mum got this book for me. She bought it because she heard on her favorite radio, their literary correspondent laughing so hard he could not speak when he talked about this book. The title would literary translate …
This book was recommended to me by a friend I visited during Christmas. Since I read Król (The King), the first part, a few years back, I decided to reread it and then start Królestwo (The Kingdom). Which is a good decision if you want to know the backstories of the characters, but the book …
I decided to reread this book after a friend recommended reading Królestwo, which is a sequel. As I read Król a few years ago I remembered only the broad strokes of the plot and the general mood of the book, so a refresh was needed. The story is told by Mojżesz Bernsztajn (I retained Polish …
Another one of my 2020 Christmas gifts. It has a lovely cover and is illustrated throughout, but it is not a children’s book. Hanna Krall is a Polish writer and journalist. In her work, she often focused on Jewish-Polish history during the Holocaust. One of her most famous books is the long interview with Marek …
It is the first of my Christmas 2020 gifts I’m reviewing, even though I already read a few. And I must say 2020 has been awful in most respects, but I could not be happier about all the bookish gifts I got this year! Let’s start with the title, as always a rough translation is …
You know this annoying situation when you’re at the airport and still have over an hour to your flight and you finish the book you had with you? Well, this happened to me recently, so I did the only reasonable thing and went to the airport bookshop. As always the selection is pretty skewed, but …
Continue reading Łódź. Miasto po przejściach – Wojciech Górecki, Bartosz Józefiak
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