Viet Thanh Nguyen serves as editor for a short but impactful collection of essays about refugees and the refugee experience. I read a lot about immigration. I'm not entirely unaware that many of these stories are actually about refugees, but it's interesting that people often morph themselves into "...
Bardzo fajna opowieść o losach emigrantów zarobkowych w UK. Jak dla mnie ostatnie 100 stron niepotrzebnie zamieniło się w ckliwe romansidło. I zakończenie też nie powala. Gdyby książka była krótsza o te 100 stron, to nic by nie straciła, a jeszcze lepiej by się ją czytało. Ale ogólnie warto przeczyt...
It was funny, admittedly, although not quite as hilarious as all the reviews made it out to be. I guess it just depends on your sense of humour. It took a little while for me to go into this, but once I had it was an enjoyable read - perfect for the holidays.
It's hard to review this book, as I enjoyed some parts, but also felt that it was trying to be too many things while failing to fully achieve any of them. The main character is Georgie who has separated from her husband and is desperately searching for a man to replace him. Her choice of Mark Diab...
Once again, Marina Lewycka brings us a hodge-podge cast of highly flawed characters and puts them into a slew of sticky situations for yet another wild romp of a story. You can read my review of this fabulously fun novel here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/05/26/a-socially-capital-laugh/
This one was a miss for me. It's a novel about a group of strawberry pickers, all immigrant workers, and their various trials and tribulations as they journey across England in search of stability, home, love, family. There's opinionated Yola and her Christian niece Marta; innocent Emanuel of Mala...
There is an episode in the comedy sitcom Mind Your Language, where Jeremy Brown's motley crew of students drawn from all over the world to learn English tell jokes to pass the time. Juan Cervantes, the Spanish bartender, tells a hilarious joke: at the end, he is in stitches, unable to stifle laught...
Stopped, page 51.Not a light touch. The humour of a tractor driver/glue sniffer. I don't mind cartoon characters if they can dance. But these ones start off callous and indifferent to each other from page 1. No idea if the narrator's repetitive, cynical voice is destined to undergo an epiphany. Won'...
I read this because of a recommendation and a synopsis. It sounded really promising. Former hippies and their capitalist children and family drama/conflict because of this difference in values. Sounds interesting? Well it isn't. The style itself is enjoyable enough, it isn't badly written and the u...
Ein gutes ukrainisch dramatisches Familienepos, in dem wirklich fast alle handelnden Personen derartig unsympatisch, gierig, kriminell, verschlagen, streitsüchtig, gewalttätig.... sind und sich auch für unseren Kulturkreis sehr "osteuopäisch" also kaum nachvollziehbar verhalten. Warum ich dennoch nu...
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