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#28 Summer and the City by Candace Bushnell
I wanted to write: "Funny, yet naive story"..
..but then I remembered my first year in Warsaw - I must admit this book captures perfectly that first intoxication of the life in big city. This hunger for parties, "first times", new friendships, redefinition of ourselves.. and above that this constant inner conflict between desire to be reckless and ( Read more... ) -
#27 Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond by Jane Maas
I will skip the obvious marketing and work related delights and go right to the merits.
The last chapter scared me.
Precisely the finality of the statement how in fact nothing changed in women' situation when it comes to combining personal and life and work. That as long we, women, will not admit to ourselves that we cannot and will not be everything ( Read more... ) -
#26 Tatami kontra krzesła. O Japończykach i Japonii by Rafał Tomański
Although it seems impossible, this book has awaken in me even more profound desire to travel as much as I am able to. Japan remains one of my most anticipated destination places. Even though recently some pictures and stories from a friend's of mine journey to Tokyo has changed its image in my perception from whimsical to overwhelming monster of a ( Read more... ) -
#25 Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Now it has been a while since I last wrote anything here. It is not like I haven't read anything. I just found myself picking up books and then being unable to finish them, which doesn't happen to me often. Or at least didn't use to happen to me.
Before I read Juliet, Naked I was holding it in my hands at least three times in the bookstore, ( Read more... ) -
#14 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (re-read)
Taking this book into my hands for the second time I found myself afraid that reading it will break me.
Surprisingly, it didn't. Without the worries about the turn of events nor the doubts about moral aspects of heroes' decisions and actions I was able to take my time looking more carefully into some of the characters' minds and emotions. Katniss' ( Read more... ) -
#13 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (re-read)
Right after I have watched the "Hunger Games" movie (twice so far), I decided to read once again the second and the third part. Fistly not to be hung over the cliff after the first movie and apart from that I have been sure I will return to them ever since I had read them for the first time.
I am glad I did it because, knowing what I know after the ( Read more... ) -
#12 Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler
I really need to stop choosing books so randomly.
I guess I thought that with the main heroin named fairly similar to me I may identify with her more easily. And then, somehow, I will be able to find some answers to the questions tormenting me every day. Fixing Delilah - it sounds almost like a manual to my crazed self, doesn't it?
Well, beacuse of ( Read more... ) -
#11 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The funny thing about this book is that I am not sure whether I have just reread it or read it for the first time. Thanks to my mom making me watch the movie over and over again in my childhood I know the story so well, it is impossible for me to answer this question.
(Re?)Reading it however made me wonder, with whom I used to identify myself back ( Read more... ) -
#10 Air Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Right after finishing it today I found opinion somewhere on the internet that it is the worst aviation book ever. I don't know about the aviation part but as an occasional customer of various airlines I found the book very much..well.. informative. All these pilots' and stewardesses' stories about venomous snakes on board, corpses in toilets, sex ( Read more... ) -
#9 The Adventure of the Powder Room by Eduardo Mendoza
I enjoyed reading it immensely, mostly thanks to absurdity of the characters and situations. Therefore the half-smile I reserve for nonsenses of the humanity has not faded from my face till the last page.
However, this book left me irritated with myself that I know too little of Spanish history to fully understand the author's observations on ( Read more... )