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Tamra
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It‘s happy reading hour with a Wisconsin beer in the Wisconsin woods, with Dostoevsky in a screen tent. There must be a relevant connection within the 900 pages.

I have the necessary choice of bug spray or a screen tent. Today it‘s the tent. 🦟🦟

lil1inblue That looks absolutely blissful! 🤩 1mo
Amiable I think my blood pressure dropped several points just looking at this scene. 😍 1mo
dabbe 💛🤎🧡 1mo
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mcctrish Ooo The Bros! Sounds like a great spot and libation 1mo
Ruthiella Yeah, I saw your legs and immediately thought “I hope she has bug spray”! 😂 1mo
CallMeIshmael I just started this translation 1mo
Cathythoughts Enjoy. Mind those bugs ! It‘s lovely to see your red chair again 👍🏻❤️ 1mo
Tamra @Cathythoughts 😘😘 1mo
Tamra @CallMeIshmael it‘s quite readable, but the pacing has me only reading a chapter or two a day. 😁 How are you liking it? 1mo
Tamra @Ruthiella bahaha! Worked like a charm. This is the first time we‘ve had one because we intend to do more camping in the MidBugWest. 😜 1mo
Tamra @mcctrish it was a perfect summer treat. 1mo
Tamra @lil1inblue @Amiable camping is nearly always my happy place. 😌 1mo
CallMeIshmael @Tamra it‘s the most readable I‘ve read but I agree about the pacing 1mo
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LiseWorks
Jacob's Ladder: A Novel | Ludmila Ulitskaya
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Pickpick

Based on a Bible passage. #ISpyBingoJune @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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konlitsy
Notes From Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle up your five senses and plunge into contemplation. While if you stick to consciousness, even though the same result is attained, you can at least flog yourself at times, and that will, at any rate, liven you up. Reactionary as it is, corporal punishment is better than nothing.

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konlitsy
Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything. Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

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Susanita
Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev
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1. My sister and I had an interesting conversation with a ballpark acquaintance about various books and other things, in which he declared his love of Russian literature.
2. Amazing French Open men‘s final.
3. Thanks to prompting from @TheSpineView I went to the bookstore and preordered the upcoming Ann Cleeves book.
4. Dark Winds on Netflix.
5. Large #libraryhaul and a pedicure on the same day.
#5joysfriday

Aims42 I love unexpected book convos with people! They give me life 🤩 3mo
lil1inblue I love #1! I love unexpected conversations with new friends! 3mo
TheKidUpstairs That Men's Final was BONKERS! What a match! 3mo
TheSpineView 🤩❤️📘 3mo
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vivastory
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This story collection, pub. by Pushkin, highlights the absurdity & black humor that Dostoevsky excelled at. I am halfway through the book & have loved both stories I've read. A later entry “The Crocodile“ I had previously read as a New Directions double feature along with Gogol's The Nose and found it to be just as memorable.

MrsMalaprop Stacking this as a potential gift for my husband 🤗. 4mo
TheBookHippie I adore it. 4mo
sarahbarnes I love The Nose so much. 3mo
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Pip2
Hadji Murat | Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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Mehso-so

Anna Katerina still remains my favorite Tolstoy novel. This was a slow read, even for just over a hundred pages it was difficult to pick back up. The very ending of the book was my favorite part as it was finally over.

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Abailliekaras
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Mehso-so

This didn‘t work for me as a novel (as its described) because there is no plot and there are no main characters who you get to know or care about (The narrator is an observer not driving most scenes). But as a documentary it‘s interesting, with intricate detail & some vivid scenes from prison life in Siberia in the 1850s. I found it slow & dense but it‘s a valuable record for anyone researching the subject, done with an eye for human nature.

Abailliekaras Coming up on the podcast! 6mo
Tamra I just had this in my hands today at the bookstore. Now I‘m glad I made other choices. (edited) 6mo
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FelipeChapulaS
Notes from Underground | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Mehso-so

“…in the mud I comforted myself with being a hero at other times….”

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Leniverse
The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pickpick

This was very strange, and so very Russian. It contains almost every Russian trope and is full of allegory, including a modern Christ figure. Most of it is dialogue and digression, and almost every character has episodes of mania, delirium, or hysteria. It wore me out a bit by the end, and I had a lot of "wth is going on?!?" moments, but it's still a pick.