If everything goes according to plan 2022 should be the year in which I shall leave London and venture back on the continent. With nine months to go (planned move if September/October) how will I say a worthy goodbye to a city that was my home for twelve years? I have several different ideas and …
Back in February I posted about rediscovering an old hobby: knitting and crocheting. The madness continues, so in the past few months I managed to finish quite a few pieces. I ventures into more shawls and discovered the world of pillows, but then it came time for really challenging projcest: the blankets! While the patterns …
It is a cliche, but the book market is dominated by English language fiction. But after ten years of living in the United Kingdom, I realized that here it is even more so. Actually, my Spanish teacher made me realize it when she asked me if I read any books by Spanish-speaking authors recently. I …
Welcome to week four, you can find links to the previous three posts at the bottom. We continue on the emotional merry-go-round. Last week focused on the wise and calming books, so this week we’re turning to darker topics. Books about death, dying and grieving. Surprisingly some of them actually offer a lot of consolation …
Continue reading Books for the Lockdown – Death, Dying and Grieving
Hi all, welcome back! It's been a while since my last post. Life has been a bit less than gracious over the last month and a half since I came back from vacation. The brain space typically reserved for reading and writing had been eaten by what corporations euphemistically call 'restructuring', which is never a …
I refuse to admit I have a book buying problem. I was able to carry all the books I bought home, myself...this means it is all under control, right? Ok, let me start at the beginning. Since mid-August I have been constantly travelling (12 flights in two months, I think I am now able to …
I rarely do this, but it is a special occasion so I will give in to a tiny bout of patriotism. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft has won 2018 Man Booker International prize. She is the first Polish writer to ever win the prize, so it is a special occasion. It is a …
Continue reading Flights by Olga Tokarczuk wins The Man Booker International
It's been a while since I published my last post, and an even longer while since I wrote one. Somehow April just wasn't good for writing so far, I don't know if it's the fact that spring is so late in coming and I was constantly feeling cold until this week, or if it's related …
As blue Monday is not yet upon us I still managed to stick to at least one of my resolutions - last Sunday I started my 12 bookshops for 12 months tour of London bookshops, as Hatchards (booksellers since 1797). The day was unbelievably sunny, blue skies and not a single cloud, but also really …
Continue reading Hatchards – 12 bookshops for 12 months – January
I already shared all the books I received and bought in 2017, apart from the Christmas ones, so here we are. I had to resort to a very 'corporate' verb acquired, as I failed yet again and bought three books in December. I do not regret this, I'm sure those will be amazing reads. What …
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