We often tell ourselves that we don't have enough time to read, and the library is full of books that we will read "over the holidays". And it's here! The summer holidays are slowly approaching, when we don't have to do anything, we just relax and turn off our thoughts. That's when many people reach for a book. If you don't have a stock of books ready for your dream holiday yet, here are some tips for (not only) summer reading from Jana Šlinská from the Martinus bookstore .
Sky Eaters
Paolo Giordano, bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, The Human Body, and Black and Silver, comes with a new novel set in the southern Italian countryside. Paolo has written an extraordinary story in which he has combined many seemingly unrelated things: adolescence, the desire for love, sex, friendship, and motherhood. These are not unfamiliar topics for the author, but in this book he has gone even further and also deals with religion, ecology, and activism. Everything is perfectly connected and gives the reader a novel that they will not soon forget.
Paolo Giordano - Eaters of the sky
Into a swimsuit
Great texts by Eva Borušovičová, some on heavier topics, some rather gently motivational at times and so wisely, soberly written, from life. This book should be kept on the nightstand at home and returned to at any time. It doesn't matter at all that it's called Into Swimsuits. It should be read all year round.
Eva Borušovičová - Into a Swimsuit
Flowers for Algernon
Now a cult book by Daniel Keyes, now published for the first time in Slovak. The story of the main character Charlie, who has an IQ of 68, and the mouse Algernon will captivate you and you won't be able to put the book down. A touching, yet educational read, a universal and timeless story.
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Against all the rules
I fell in love with the author of this book from the first page. Ariel Levy tells her true story, a story of great love, but also great loss, of addiction, homosexuality, but above all of great female power. You will experience it all with the author 100%, exactly as the Absynt edition in which the book was published is called.
Ariel Levy - Against All Rules
Silent years
Alena Mornštajnová, best known in our country for her bestseller Hana, has written a new book that should not be missing from your library. In her novel Silent Years, the author does not address any major historical themes, but on the contrary – it is an intimate family story in which great history does not play a role, but coincidences and human failures.
Alena Mornštajnová - Silent Years
Hopefully you'll never need it.
Again the true story of Carolina Setterwall. One morning Carolina wakes up and finds her husband dead in bed. In an instant her whole life is turned upside down, she is left alone with a son to take care of. She described her story in a book in which you will read ten years of her life, full of love as well as grief and depression. A touching and beautiful read, realistic, not pathetic.
Carolina Setterwall - Hopefully you'll never need it
Jana Šlinská takes care of events and social media at Martinus. She is a big Harry Potter fan, loves books, coffee and cookies. She reads around a hundred books a year and regularly posts her book tips on her Instagram as @ _dzejny .
