Skip to the content
The Exiled Soul

A Book and Literary Travel Blog

  • HOME
  • ABOUT ME
  • BOOKS
    • BOOKS BY AUTHOR
    • BOOKS BY DESTINATION
    • BOOK LISTS
  • LITERARY TRAVEL
    • LONDON
    • EDINBURGH
    • BATH
    • MEXICO CITY
    • PARIS
    • POLAND
    • PRAGUE
  • REFLECTIONS
  • WORK WITH ME
Menu
Expand search form

SEARCH

FOLLOW MY BLOG

Loading

ABOUT ME

Welcome,

This blog is dedicated to book reviews, everything related to literature, travel as well as reflections on art and slow living.

I hope you will find some interesting book recommendations here and you will be inspired to read more.

Hugs,

Joanna Pola

TOP POSTS

  • 8 Best Books by Elif Shafak
    8 Best Books by Elif Shafak
  • Fresh Water For Flowers by Valerie Perrin | Book Review
    Fresh Water For Flowers by Valerie Perrin | Book Review
  • 8 Atmospheric Books to Read in Autumn
    8 Atmospheric Books to Read in Autumn
  • 20 Books about Immigration, Belonging and Identity
    20 Books about Immigration, Belonging and Identity
  • 10 Books about Loneliness
    10 Books about Loneliness
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | Book Review
    The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | Book Review
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid | Book Review
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid | Book Review
  • 10 Great Books by African Writers
    10 Great Books by African Writers
  • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid | Book Review
    Exit West by Mohsin Hamid | Book Review
  • The Melancholic Soul of Fernando Pessoa | Reflections
    The Melancholic Soul of Fernando Pessoa | Reflections
Wishing you a pleasant and peaceful beginning of autumn! “(…) No one has told them that the most frightening thing of all about the loss of youth is not what is taken away but what is granted in exchange. (…) Only the awareness of universal disintegration. (…) Time had shrunk to specific moments, important events to single episodes, familiar places to the mere backdrop to individual scenes. (…) The difference between the living and the dead is merely qualitative (…). They had learned that in everyone’s life there is only one person whose name can be cried out in the moment of death.” Wishing you a peaceful week ahead! Have a peaceful Sunday. I spent some time at the local cafe in East London, reading Katalin Street by Magda Szabo, eating hazelnut vegan bun and drinking iced coffee. Thank you @omarabooks for this lovely, informative, enlightening, and so entertaining book, Literary London by Eloise Millar and Sam Jordiston. I don’t post often the reviews these days as I have been struggling with health issues recently. Writing anything that makes sense these days is a bit of a challenge but I take notes on everything I’m currently reading and I think I will be posting those for some time. It’s a bit of gobbledygook but I hope it can be useful to some of you who might not have the access to a given book. So here it is: my notes on A Kidnapped West by Milan Kundera. I hope you all are doing well. Wishing you a peaceful start of the week 🤍🩷🤍🌸 I finally uploaded the second video from Prague. This footage is from the summer morning I spent in this beautiful city roaming the streets of the Old Town and visiting the Klementinum Library often voted as the most beautiful library in the world. I also climbed the Astronomical Tower to have a beautiful view of Prague. “I’ll never discover where they ended up, no one knows the humble fates of so many people. (…) this entire world is no more than a delusion of my crippled mind. (…) another such world is possible, (…) but a little less heinous.”
  • HOME
  • ABOUT ME
  • BOOKS
  • LITERARY TRAVEL
  • REFLECTIONS
  • WORK WITH ME

The Exiled Soul

Olsen WordPress Theme by CSSIgniter

Close Menu
     

    Loading Comments...