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ImperfectCJ
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A short book of very short, very off-the-wall stories. These stories each take a little random idea and answer the question, what if this little random idea happened in real life? Delightfully bizarre.

thecheckoutstack Oh! The author read one of these stories on an episode of This American Life recently. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/851/try-a-little-tenderness/act-four-12 18h
flying_monkeys Glad to hear this. I bought the collection for "Kneller's Happy Campers,” the basis for one of my favorite movies, Wristcutters: A Love Story. But I have yet to read the other stories. I‘ll have to bump this up my TBR. 17h
ImperfectCJ @flying_monkeys Kneller's Happy Campers is in this collection, too. I'll have to check out Wristcutters. I don't keep up with movies near as well as I once did, but I do enjoy movies a lot (when I'm not reading, of course 🙃) 16h
ImperfectCJ @thecheckoutstack Ooh! I'll have to give it a listen! I love TAL, but I got out of the habit of listening when we moved to a house where our under-cabinet radio didn't fit (yes, I could stream it, but I haven't gotten into that habit). 16h
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suvata
The Tunnel | A. B. Yehoshua
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4 Stars • Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman • "The Tunnel" by A.B. Yehoshua is about Zvi Luria, a retired engineer, obsessed with an unfinished tunnel in Jerusalem. It explores themes of dementia, identity, and the connection between personal and national history in modern Israel.

#TheTunnel #ABYehoshua #StuartSchoffman #Bookish

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TheBookgeekFrau
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Eggs 🩶💛💙 2w
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BookMaven9
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Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️unpopular opinion coming. I thought this book was poorly written, too many abrupt jumps. I didn‘t care for any of the characters and wanted to feel something g emotional connection but could not. I think I‘d rather read about the true woman this happened to, Eva Panic Nahir.

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Chittavrtti
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TheBookgeekFrau
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The 12 Days of Christmas

November favorite

#12BooksOf2024

Andrew65 An interesting read. 4w
TheBookgeekFrau @Andrew65 Very! This ended up being my favorite of the year 4w
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Bashiyer
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Wow. Incredibly raw and well-written piece reflecting on the landscape of journalism: how and why things become news, the conveyor belt of stories, and where we as correspondents, editors, and readers fall short.

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Maria_Pulver
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Mehso-so

#Hannukahchallenge 🕯️The stories are rather uneven but all make attempts to represent Israelis as very humane individuals, not some pieces of a monolithic nation providing news headlines.
The overall drawback for me is the writing style. It's not exactly pure realism because of the artistic freedom Friedlander uses, but it is not a mystical realism we're seeing in Edgar Keret's stories. It is more of some sort of an adolescent fantasy realism.

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ImperfectCJ
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Check out the gorgeous book covers my spouse got me for Christmas! He wrapped them around library books he got from deep in my TBR list, as is our tradition (the library books...the book covers are a new thing). I'm told there are a bunch more coming in, but so far, I have the tagged, plus Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams and Haven by Emma Donoghue. Perfect for #ReadOutTheOld!

Tamra Gorgeous! 1mo
LiteraryinPA What a clever gift! 1mo
Meshell1313 Gorg! 😍 1mo
MaleficentBookDragon Those are gorgeous! Where did he get them? (edited) 1mo
ImperfectCJ @MaleficentBookDragon I think these are the Charlie & Fox fabric dust jacket. They fit beautifully. 1mo
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Chrissyreadit
Moods | Yoel Hoffmann
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TheBookHippie Oooooo 😍😍😍😍😍!! 2mo
Bookpearl I love these! 2mo
KadaGul So cozy #HappyHolidays🎄💚🎅❤️🦌💚🎁❤️❄️💚☃️ 2mo
AllDebooks That, my friend, is my idea of heaven 💙❄️💙 2mo
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