Missouri in Mazury

We recently picked up and moved across the country - from Mazury to Lower Silesia. I'm not changing the blog name just yet, because "Missouri in Śląsk" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. Not only was this a big move, because of distance (it's 580 km / 360 miles, or a 6.5 hour drive from our previous location), but it was a big move due to the fact that we're no longer in a tiny village. Our previous street address listed the village name as the street, because the village was too small to have street names. Now, we live in Wrocław (pronounced vrots-wahv). We went from a village of barely 100 people to a city of almost 700,000. We went from me being the one of three immigrants in the county, to being one of hundreds. Wrocław is currently the European Capital of Culture. It is also known as the "miasto spotkań" (the meeting place) and the city of bridges, as there are around 100 bridges in Wrocław (if you include footbridges in parks and bridg...

We're not in Mazury anymore, Toto.

Years ago, my mom bought a magnet that I'm able to relate to more and more. A woke me up this morning by calling my phone and having B talk to me. B came into our room, made himself comfortable on the bed next to me and was chatting away. Then he asked about the kitty. Slowly it dawned on me that B thought he was talking on the phone with my mom. Oh shit, I even sound like my mother!?

Rage (Gniew)  by Zygmunt Miloszewski is the third book in its series. I mainly read this book, because it was one of those Kindle First books offered (for May?) and the rest of the books offered looked terrible. I had also previously read  A Grain of Truth (Ziarno prawdy)  in Polish and English (recommend!) and really enjoyed it. Now all I have to do is read the first book in the series,  Entanglement ... I read this series a little backwards. I actually preferred book #2 over this one: I didn't like the ending, mainly because I found it too confusing as a reader (I don't like being left out of the loop for so long, though I had suspected something). I especially liked this book, though, because I'm familiar with Olsztyn and its 11 lakes and did enjoy reading a book set in a familiar location. As a person with a translation degree who works in the translation industry, I also have to give a shout out to the translator, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, who totally kille...

You can actually catch them all in Warsaw! It's not sadly barren like up here in Mazury - I was very excited. You can tell I'm such a dedicated Pokémon player, looking at my level... Park Łazienki   Centrum Andrzej Duda also plays ;)

Missourians would hate these Mazurian roundabouts ;)

I was introduced to Kelley Armstrong in September 2014 with the first book in the Cainsville series, Omens . While impatiently waiting for the next books to be printed, I dove into her other series, including the Darkest Powers, Darkness Rising, and, finally, Women of the Otherworld series. While I highly recommend reading her books, I'm just finished the Otherworld series and it's fresh in my mind. I really enjoyed most of the characters, though I absolutely hated the 5th book and thought it was completely unrealistic (and I know - it's a book about ghosts, so how realistic can it be? But that was bad). I especially liked the stories about Savannah, which we got to follow to the end. The prologue to  Thirteen  describes Kelley Armstrong's own journey while writing the novels. She writes that it took her a while to figure out the direction of the series, but that when she did, it really clicked. As a reader, that's very apparent. The books ranged from amazing to...