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“Sometimes, the hardest stories to tell are the ones that need to be told the most.”

Jozef faces the challenges of living in a war-torn world. As he deals with fear and loss, he discovers the power of storytelling to heal and inspire. This moving story shows that even in tough times, sharing our experiences can help us find hope and strength.

This is a powerful tale about a boy named Jozef living in a war-torn world. As he struggles with fear and loss, Jozef learns the importance of storytelling as a way to cope with the horrors around him. The book beautifully combines adventure with deep emotions, showing how stories can help heal and give hope even in the darkest times. It's a touching read that encourages kids to find their own voice.

#CoverLove Day 26: #Angel - the novel I brought while husband and I were in Sibiu, Romania last year. Paired with the city‘s assorted cheeses and cold cuts.

Some reading and tea on the porch before I start working.

Such nice gifts this year!

This 1993 novel was rejuvenated when Müller won the Nobel Prize. It is powerful, but tough going and I struggled through (but felt it!). A series of sketches of life as a college-educated political dissident under Ceaușescu, with constant harassment, abuse, economic strain and suicides. Relentlessly bleak.

Trying to get into this view of Romania under Ceaușescu. Normally I easily embrace these impressionistic sketches. But I‘ve been reading fun stuff lately, including a lot of Chaucer, and I think I‘m struggling a bit to be a properly horrified mindset. 🙂 Anyway, getting going.

This psychological and metaphysical prose was published in the 1930s. It feels like a confession, where the outside world is perceived as too common, boring and useless and the narrator struggles to escape it by hiding in his inner world, where anxiety, unrest and morbid thoughts torture him.

The goal: to educate the Censor inside every thinking human being. To train them to be their own Censor, but to not even suspect it, to not know.