Gradually, I really came to consider myself as an old maid ( Read more... )

It is only in our youth that we are so selflessly and completely indulging to fun and are so hopelessly feeling alone, fearfully thinking about our uncertain future.

Serious Relationship is a book that describes with maximum fidelity the experience of searching for the most comfortable partner in entertainment and, possibly, in the future, a ( Read more... )

"However, there was one friend Lenka whom I was hanging out with ( Read more... )

"He told he had come across women of three types in his life ( Read more... )

"In the search for the man of my dreams, I used the special parties called "dating balls". Such events for youth were organized by the company called "The Scarlet Sails", which rented assembly halls of universities and houses of culture from time to time on Saturday evenings ( Read more... )

So  that's what often happens - you grab some first book you come across to put it under a sheet of paper you are giong to write on, and on closer examination this book turns out to be last year's catalog of the MIFF, and then the thought comes: what is there with the current MIFF - the very same festival that they were going to postpone to the ( Read more... )

As for me, I can’t say that I am well in history ( Read more... )

Probably all of us have ever heard the phrase that in the same book, each reader finds something of his own. In fact, everyone reads his own individual book, because something in the text leaves him completely indifferent or even irritates him, while other fragments of the text evoke a strong emotional response or an influx of associations and ( Read more... )

It is always pleasant for me, due to some book, to look into the respectable living rooms of the middle of the last century and listen to the clever conversations about book publishing, and there is so much of it in the novel "Two-Thirds of the Ghost" by Helen McCloy ( Read more... )

The American friend of mine, a regular reader of The Atlantic, sent me a link to an interesting article on the so-called Reading Challenge on Goodreads ( Read more... )