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LiseWorks
Diary | Witold Gombrowicz
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 2mo
Eggs 💚🌳🩷 2mo
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dabbe
Talking to My Body | Anna Swir
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TheSpineView ❤️🐕❤️ 5mo
dabbe @TheSpineView 🖤🐾🖤 5mo
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heatherspoetlife
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I can only fir the beginning but this is a fabulous poem from an amazing poet. This is how the world makes me feel these days.

#poetrymatters

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Jari-chan
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Even though it's not my favorite book by Tokarczuk, it is still a very takarzuk-y book. It has all her elements: complicated characters, nature, history, magic, intertwined stories. Those stories show us that we all belong together somehow, that we all are connected. Even if it's only a tiny string. It's a slow book, like a fresh rainy afternoon in the summer. Actually, you can hear the rain hitting the leaves.

#BacklistReadathon @Clwojick

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TheSpineView
Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997 | Wislawa Szymborska, Stanis?aw Bara?czak, Clare Cavanagh
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lil1inblue 💓💓💓 7mo
IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 7mo
dabbe 💚🩷💚 7mo
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lil1inblue
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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I'm going with 2 classics and one newer selection today:

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (my husband loves it, and we read it every Christmas)
2. “The Tell-Tale Heart“ by Edgar Allan Poe (it's just so good!)
3. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (It's too hard to pick a single story from this one)

#tlt #threelistthursday

dabbe #1: 🤩 #2: Have you ever seen the animated short narrated by James Mason? It's a must see! Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKOtXC4oyM
Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚
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lil1inblue @dabbe I can't wait to watch! 😍 8mo
dabbe @lil1inblue This is another excellent non-animated version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe0WyjiW5Ps

I would show both of these to my students after reading it; they LOVED both of them! 🤩😃🤗
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Smarkies
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Reportage from around the 1960s. Gives a view of Poland post Stalin. There is a general sense of decay in all the pieces and each piece has hidden depths.
A book to be dipped into and read when the mood fits.
#1962

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squirrelbrain
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Just a little tiny book haul today, because I definitely needed more books…

Popped into the library to pick up some ‘possibles‘ for the Women‘s Prize for fiction (and no I‘m not telling you how many library books I now have on loan!) and they had a book sale on, so I had to support, of course, by buying 5 books.

Young Queens is on the NF long list and came out today, and Mongrel because it‘s also rumoured for the Fiction Prize and sounds fab.

LeeRHarry I definitely felt that even though the Du Bois took some effort it was worth it in the end. Great haul 📚 😊 8mo
BarbaraBB I enjoyed Snap a lot! Also liked Flights, The Lowlands and Vitamine! 8mo
Hooked_on_books You nabbed some good ones! I know Love Songs is chunky, but I loved it and didn‘t want it to end. I also really liked Goodbye Vitamin. 8mo
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TrishB Love Songs was great and I enjoyed Snap. 8mo
Ruthiella I loved Goodbye Vitamin. I think you will like it. 8mo
batsy This reminds me of all the books I want to read! 😆 I enjoyed Snap. 8mo
Cathythoughts Very nice 👌🏻 I enjoyed Snap too. 8mo
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IuliaC
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Dense, reflective, philosophical. Longer and shorter personal and fictional stories and a brief history on plastination; an unnerving and haunting dissection of the human body and of human paroxysmal emotions.

"This always happens when she flies: she gets a bird‘s eye view of her whole life, of particular moments that you‘d think on the ground had been completely forgotten. The banal mechanism of the flashback, mechanical reminiscence."

Jari-chan Can't wait for my next Tokarczuk ❤️ 9mo
IuliaC @Jari-chan This one was my second and I enjoyed them both 😊 9mo
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BarbaraBB
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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The stories in this book seem to be set between time and place. Olga Tokarczuk travels and writes about the people she meets, whom she talks to or only observes. But she also dives back in time and presents us the early days of anatomical studies. It may sound weird but I feel like I travelled with Tokarczuk and finishing the book feels like the arrival afterwards long flight.
It‘s an intense experience even though I didn‘t enjoy all stories.

ChaoticMissAdventures I am so glad you enjoyed this! It is quite unique. I think with all collective stories there will be some threads that are not for us. 10mo
Librarybelle I‘ve had this one on my radar 10mo
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Megabooks Sounds interesting!! Apparently I had already stacked this! 10mo
BarbaraBB @ChaoticMissAdventures Just like in real life! 10mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 10mo
squirrelbrain Great review! 10mo
Deblovestoread Love your review. Makes me want to pick it up even though short stories are not my thing. 10mo
rockpools Thanks @BarbaraBB Great review. I really do need to read this, don‘t I?! 10mo
BarbaraBB @rockpools I am still not sure… it is not a hard read though, so you could give it a try and see what you‘ll think 10mo
BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread Thank you! They are not short stories in the usual way, it reads like a novel - if that makes sense! 10mo
KarenUK Sounds really interesting. Great review x 10mo
youneverarrived Great review! 10mo
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