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 Recently I have finished a book by Mikel Santiago called “Wyspa zaginionych głosów”. He is a Spanish author, and all his books are written in Spanish, but I read a translated version of it. I am pretty sure none of his books were translated to English, and only the one I read is available in Polish. Maybe it is caused by the translation or the writer's style, but I did not really enjoy the language of this book. It was too simple and too colloquial. I think that it completely ruined the whole experience of reading, so that is a huge minus. The plot was nice, it was supposed to be a thriller, but I would describe it more as an adventure novel. It tells a story of a soldier traveling by plane with some kind of military/politically connected, secret load. The plane falls into the ocean and the secret box reaches a small island. People there want to open it, and everybody on the island starts acting weird, almost possessed. The other day, two locals find the soldier, who survived th...

 "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY" About a week ago I watched a movie called “Bohemian Rhapsody” it is a biography of Freddie mercury and his band Queen. He was a British singer born in India, emigrated to Zanzibar and then to Britain. His parents were really pushing to teach their child about Indian culture, but he was ashamed of it.   Freddie was a huge fan of music since he was a little boy, so he was going to the tavern every weekend to listen to rock bands. One day he became vocalist of the band himself. Then, Queen grew slowly but surely, they got a producer and recorded their first songs. Freddie met Mary, his first love. They got married and a couple years later Freddy discovered his bisexuality. After queen became very popular, he had a partner named Jim Hutton. The rest of the story is very simple, movie shows growth of the band, and some other stories connected to it. I really enjoyed the movie, it was interesting and educational, music was amazing, and Rami Malek played Fre...

 "THE THERAPIST" Recently I read a book called "the therapist" by B.A Paris. B.A Paris is my favorite criminal writer and this was the third book I have read, written by her. All of them are psychological thrillers, so is "the therapist"   The story at the beginning is calm, and everything seems normal. Alice and Leo are together for almost a year, so they decide to live together. Leo buys a house in The Circle, which is a gated community of exclusive houses. Their dream of big lovely house is becoming true, but things are not as perfect as they seem. The Circle community is really mysterious, and the whole story becomes more and more interesting with time. Unfortunately   we need to wait really long for the action development so it can get boring. In "Behind closed doors" and " The breakdown"   (other two B.A Paris books I have read) action moves faster, and the books are interesting to this point, that you can not stop reading. ...

 One week ago I went to the cinema to see a movie marathon. It was a trilogy of "After". I was not going there because of the movie, since I do not really enjoy romantic scenarios. But I have never been to a marathon before, so I really wanted to go.  The whole movie series is about Tessa and Hardin who fell in love with eachother, but it was not easy for them to get together. Part one of the movie was not so bad, but in my opinion it was too basic and boring. It was for sure more interesting than part two and three. Speaking of which, were not addicting at all, showed a very toxic relationship and just were not it. Considering a number of people who recommend this movie, I thought it was a lot better, so I can for sure say that I am disappointed. It was my first movie marathon and I really enjoyed the whole experience, but I do not recommend "After", if you are looking for a good, interesting movie.

 "All the rage"- review. Last week I finished reading a criminal book „All the rage” by Cara Hunter, one of the five books from this series. At first, when we open the book, we read a terrifying story about a girl who was grabbed of the street, and assaulted. Then, another girl disappears. Adam Fawley- main character, (investigator that appeared in all books from this series) needs to connect the facts, and bring one forgotten case back to life, to catch the offender.  The book is really complicated at first, a lot of characters, things going on, and a new thread at almost every other page, but at the end it all connects into one piece. Criminal books with two or more cases can be really interesting, exploring characters past, connecting two and two together, trying to understand offenders motive. This book taught me a lot about criminality, because the investigation was described with details so i could really try solving it myself. To be honest I could not predict the end...

 Criminalistics and criminology- introduction Criminalistics and criminology are going to be the main themes of my future posts. At the outset I would like to explain the difference between those two. Criminalistics is more practical area. It is a biological and technical science, about defecting crimes and criminals. Every day, criminalistics professionals perform three types of tasks: detection, evidence and prevention. When it comes to criminology, it is sociological science. The main interest of criminologists are the motives for which a person goes on a criminal path. It is not difficult to see, that this is much more theoretical field.  In my posts I am going to write more about criminality, so I will describe interesting cases and well known criminals.