Goodreads page My rating: 4.5 out of 5 My review: When you can’t cheat the game, you’d best find a means to cheat the players. This has been a fun continuation of style set in the original Gentlemen Bastards (The Lies of Locke Lamora). It repeats much the same recipe - glorious (mis)adventures, schemes that are several layers deep and mixture of luck and misfortune in equal measure. …

Goodreads page My rating: 5 out of 5 My review: I’ve got kids that enjoy stealing. I’ve got kids that don’t think about stealing one way or the other, and I’ve got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they’ve got nothing else to do. But nobody–and I mean nobody–has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. …

Goodreads link My rating: 5 out of 5 My review: The politically incorrect advice I would (of course never) give is this: go to the pub for a drink in the morning. This books is a revelation. It describes in a vivid way what happens when we don’t get enough sleep (it’s worse than I imagined in my wildest dreams). Lack of sleep disrupts learning, memory formation, compromises immune system and contributes to various ailments. …

Goodreads page My rating: 4 out of 5 My review: Keep breathing, I said. It’s a habit you don’t want to break. This has been one fun book. Witty, quite funny and full of magic. There were a few dry spells (Ha! Get it?) here and there, but I still consider this a successful combination of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere and more traditional CSI/detective books. There’s London, there’s magic, there is science and fake history. …

Goodreads page My rating: 5 out of 5 My review: The world had never ceased to change, but it would also never change for anyone. I got to this book through reading Ken Liu’s translation of Three Body Problem (one of my favourite sci-fi series). He has done similar great work translating this story. The story reminded me of William Gibson writing in many ways (especially Neuromancer storyline), but sprinkled with Chinese culture. …

Goodreads page My rating: 3 out of 5 My review: Widely considered a classic of sci-fi, this book as been in my “to-do” shelf for a long time. I finally got to it now, and I have mixed feelings. The idea itself is interesting enough, all the interesting tidbits of trivia about a future world, aliens, fall of some distant civilization interesting. But somehow I am missing a bigger picture or a story line. …

Goodreads page My rating: 4 out of 5 My review: The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. Quite different read from the Hyperion saga itself. Not quite as complex, but still fun action read written from two alternative perspectives - the hunter and the hunted. What happens when an empire spanning many worlds collapses one day to the next? What or who will fill the void? And what would they do to keep their newfound power? …

Goodreads page My rating: 5 out of 5 In the dark all the shadows disappear Another great Stephen King read. It made me laugh, it made me angry, it made me confused. But above all - it made me enjoy reading again. Stephen King can make improbable seem possible. The mixture of real work and fantastical is blended with great care, creating sort of “uncanny valley” feeling of “Maybe. …

I do not generally read this type of stories so it took me longer than usual to get through it. An interesting mystery book nicely weaving between different times and occasionally connecting different points in time. Interestingly enough the whole point of the story is more about a house, rather than people or any specific adventure. There are bits and pieces of people and adventures but they seem unimportant and often disconnected from each other. …

Počet porcií: 4 Čas: 20 minutes Ingrediecie 1 špetka sůl 2 ks vejce 400 ml mléko 200 g hladká mouka olej na smažení Postup Hladkou mouku rozmixujeme se špetkou soli, mlékem a dvěma vejci tak, aby vznikla správná hustá směs vhodná pro palačinky (ani řídká, ani moc hustá). Na pánev s rozpáleným olejem vlijeme přibližně jednu malou naběračku směsi. Palačinku smažíme z obou dvou stran dozlatova. Na hotové palačinky naneseme libovolné množství čehokoliv, co nám chutná. …