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An opportunity to pick up a bk languishing in my tbr pile and what a wonderful read.
A chance meeting in a antwerp station allows the narrator to recount conversations of many yrs with jacques austerlitz. A moving tale of a child adopted in 1939 by a childless welsh couple, who as an adult realises he was part of the kinder transport. This triggers a dislocation ⬇️
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In this book, the whole story is a written account of what they were told by a friend. The friend in turn tells his story, of starting late in life to find his family. Colorful writing keeps it from dragging on too much, though its an overall sad book. Still, it has won high praise for a reason: its a stunning story that feels all to real.

Bella is trying to read Austerlitz but is falling asleep. I will now take over. #Reading1001 #1001Books

My handsome chonk, Booker 😻 #Reading1001 #1001books

I tried...Lord knows I tried! #bookyouneverfinished #riotgrams

I feel like I should have liked this book more than I did.

Austerlitz is ultimately about identity, and the story is compelling—the main character was one of the children sent away on Kindertransport before WWII—but I never really felt like I connected with this book. The writing is very good, and I actually liked all of the architectural discussion, but I wasn‘t crazy about the style.

Maybe I‘m doing it wrong? Oh well.

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Out for my lunchtime #audiowalk with a new book. Things are not getting green very fast, but how nice that the 🤬ing bugs are back.

I‘m about 1 1/2 hours in to this book, and we are finally getting in to Austerlitz‘s story. Fingers crossed that it gets a little more interesting, because my god this is boring. 😳

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Have any of you read this? It is an April TBR book. I will be reading it for a challenge in the #Reading1001 group on Goodreads.

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This was not an easy book to read, but I think it was worth it. This was the second time I tried it. The difficulty lies in the fact that it is a set of nested narratives, sometimes as many as three deep. It also reads very much like Proust, where objects and places launch into a stream of consciousness. These are often beautiful philosophical musings that eventually weave into the story of a man who is trying to learn about his heritage.

Tried to read x 2, but just couldn‘t get through first ten pages. That being said, it‘s an award winning piece of literature and gets great reviews on Litsy :):) Even though I bailed on it, I‘m keeping it on my bedside pile.... there might be a chance for a third try sometime in the future 🙃

Who's read Sebald? I'm excited to find a new-to-me author. Recommended by Anthony Doerr.

Jacques Auterlitz was raised in Wales by foster parents in the early 1940s. He refuses to think of his past and lives his life fleeing the truth while he is hardly aware of doing just that. Until one day he hears about transports of Jewish children from Prague to the UK just before WWII. He realizes he was one of those children and that he no longer can or wants to flee from his past and his roots. #1001books

One of my favourite #onewordtitle books. Moths, architecture, and the search for identity #riotgrams

Alright, who's read this? I'm 83 pages in and MAN what I wouldn't give for a chapter break. Heck, even a paragraph break would do. It's lovely, but it's such a reading commitment. Any strategies that can be recommended?

#giftsfromfriends. And by gifts I mean borrowed books that I'm thrilled to read. Both come highly recommended... picking which one to read first is like picking sides isn't it... 😊

Ob ich "Austerlitz" jemals zu Ende lese?