pickMy 2 favorite things about this are the cover and the title. This is sort of a soft pick for me.
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"I know it's morbid, but I remember growing up with a kind of envy for that sweet, endless plummet- how your body can be given a measure of grace as it greets the air, feels its own heft and buoyancy."
pickI really enjoyed this story of falling in all of its forms. The gradual revelations about the characters, especially the MC and her twin, snuck up on me a bit and were executed very well. The ways we choose to see ourselves and others makes for a great unreliable narrator here. A bonus that her family came from the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) to settle in the Midwest like mine.
What else to do when I‘m sitting (as usual) in the ballet studio parking lot? 📖
I‘m enjoying this book so far - parallels to the history of my own family make it really interesting.
pickDouble review: One book by #Czech writer - set in France, and one by American author - set in Prague.
I‘m not Milan Kundera fan, although I find his books good, especially on the level of the individual sentences, but his overall writing style is too philosophical for me … and this book isn‘t exception. In this story he is playing with the idea of personal/intimate identity, the identity of partner/husband, how perception can reverse with the … 👇
My Saturday afternoon - ebook and cherry pie with vanilla sauce. The main theme in my current read is family legacy through stories and its effects … sad story, but perfect for rainy day. #weekendReading
My current read while I‘m waiting for my dog (she is in dog grooming salon). I was intrigued by the title, and now when I‘m few pages in - the content and the writing style are promising. Defenestration is a new word for me 🤷🏻♀️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration
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