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ImperfectCJ
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Mehso-so

I alternated between the print book and audiobook on this one. I really like it on a word-and-sentence level, and the imagery is vivid, which I love, but the overall meaning eludes me. This is possibly the point, but it also makes the novel a little too slippery. I still love Oyeyemi's writing, but this one doesn't quite hit for me.

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ImperfectCJ
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Audiocooking (granola, chicken, Brussels sprouts, NOT all mixed together) to the tagged book, which is leaving me feeling a little drunk and a lot like I need to visit Prague.

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Bookwomble
The Golem | Gustav Meyrink
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A couple of finds today: a not very old Puffin edition of former National Poet of Wales, Gwyn Jones' Mabinogion retelling, but it has an evocative cover and some nice line illustrations.
The Golem is one of my favourite books, and this is a new to me translation, published in Czechia, so I'm guessing the original owner bought it as a souvenir, but that's an assumption as unreliable as the narrator.
🧀+🍷+🌰+📚+🎶=😌

Dilara Re The Golem: that's exactly what I did! Bought this exact version in Prague in 2008 at a museum shop! 12mo
Bookwomble @Dilara Ha! My mystically occult senses were onto something! 🧙🏻‍♂️😄 12mo
Dilara @Bookwomble I like your wizzard emoji! 12mo
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Billypar
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Pickpick

Whether it's visual art, music, movies, or literature, I love seeing an artist reference their own favorite influences. In Oyeyemi's latest, she mashes up two Calvino novels - If on a winter's night and Invisible Cities (maybe more? - those are the only two I've read) with a few nods to Borges mixed in. It's perfect fuel for this meditation on the infinity of mental representations of the same city that exist in the minds of its visitors 👇

Billypar It's Prague entering a hall of mirrors but one where every image reflects something different back. But her novels are never content to rest on just one focus, so she weaves together reflections on relationships of three's, both literal romantic ones, and the implied author, subject, and reader. I haven't mentioned the plot yet, and if you're a fan of her work, you can probably guess why. It's complicated. But in the best way 🤯😸 12mo
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Megabooks
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A friend brought us a bouquet from her garden yesterday, and I thought it would look nice with these library holds I‘m very excited about!! 💜📚💐

peanutnine Lovely! 🌼 12mo
bookandbedandtea Beautiful! I cannot WAIT for flowers in my neck of the woods. Winter lasts forever here. 🌷🪻⚘️ 12mo
Chelsea.Poole Nice stack you have there! I‘m going to read James and hope to get to The Book of Love soonish 👯‍♀️ 12mo
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REPollock I couldn‘t put down James. I read it nonstop. ❤️ 12mo
Billypar Great picks! I'm reading Parasol now and I've got two older ones from Link and Everett on my shelf. 12mo
BarbaraBB Oooh! You‘ve got James already! ❤️❤️ 12mo
Cathythoughts These all look good. I must look them up 👍🏻 12mo
JenP James is great. I hope you love it too 12mo
Megabooks @JenP @REPollock it‘s up next after I finish the two I‘m reading! 12mo
Megabooks @peanutnine @bookandbedandtea I‘m really enjoying springtime! Thanks!! 😁😁 12mo
Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole you and I are so in sync!! 12mo
Megabooks @Billypar I‘ve loved almost everything I‘ve read by Everett. Link is hit or miss for me, but I‘m excited about this one. How‘s Parasol going so far? 12mo
Megabooks @BarbaraBB yes! It came out this week here! 12mo
Megabooks @Cathythoughts always happy to see you! I hope you find one you want to read! 12mo
Suet624 You lucky duck. Great books! Can‘t wait to read James. 12mo
Billypar @Megabooks I'm liking it so far, but still pretty early at just page 50. Really it feels like catching up with an old friend because her style is so distinctive. 12mo
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Therewillbebooks
HHhH | Laurent Binet
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We have a fantastic novel to discuss this week. Laurent Binet's debut novel “HHhH“ has been on both our radars since its release over a decade ago and our high expectations were met and exceeded by this brilliant, thrilling, and important book. We highly recommend this book and we hope you enjoy our conversation about all things “HHhH.“

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0YJ0Hwirv08rBPPHBry1oQ

BarbaraBB I was so impressed by this book! 14mo
Therewillbebooks I loved it! 14mo
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TheEllieMo
HHhH | Laurent Binet
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

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Dilara
Prague with Fingers of Rain | Ewald Osers, Vt?zslav Nezval
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Enjoying #Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval's poetry collection #Prague with Fingers of Rain and looking through the (mostly disappointing) photos we took when we spent a lovely week there back in 2008...

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TheEllieMo
Utz | Bruce Chatwin
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I absolutely loved this little gem of a book. It comes in at only 155 pages but Chatwin says so much within those pages in this elegant novel about a collector of Meissen porcelain in Communist-era Prague.

Second finish for #RushAThon #Readathon

@Andrew65
@DieAReader
@GHABI4ROSES

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 2y
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2y
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shawnmooney
Mendelssohn is on the Roof | Ji? Weil, Marie Winn
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https://youtu.be/BhiPsquNRXc

Intro

Weekly Highlights

The Imaginary Lives Of James Pōneke by Tina Makereti

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson

And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiří Weil, Marie Winn (Translator)

No Bones by Anna Burns

shawnmooney Leave My Bones In Saskatoon by Michael Afenfia

The Sex Life of My Aunt by Mavis Cheek

Breast Stories by Mahasweta Devi, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator)

Selected Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty

The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg, Frances Frenaye (Translator)

The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy, Alan Brown (Translator)

A Decent World by Ellen Hawley

Loop Tracks by Sue Orr

2y
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