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starlight97
Emma lnya | Janka Fbin
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My favorite way to read: with Loki in my lap and a cold beer by my side. 🍺🐾
#catsoflitsy #hungarian 🇭🇺

Jari-chan De édes! 😻 4mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awww Loki 🤍🐾 4mo
dabbe Hello there, Lovable Loki! 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
starlight97 @Jari-chan nagyon 😁💕 4mo
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starlight97
Emma szerelme | Janka Fbin
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Pickpick

Interesting historical fiction novel about Emma and her family.
#hungarian #catsoflitsy

Chrissyreadit 😻😻😻😻😻 5mo
Jari-chan Aww, cute kitty ❤️😻 nagyon cuki! 😸 5mo
starlight97 @Jari-chan oh wow, I think this is the first time I see Hungarian words on Litsy 😵🤩😁 5mo
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Jari-chan @starlight97 I've not met many Hungarians here, so I couldn't resist 🤭🇭🇺 5mo
RaeLovesToRead Aww, kitty stretch! 🥰 5mo
starlight97 @Jari-chan where are you from?😁 5mo
Jari-chan @starlight97 Switzerland 😁 which part of Hungary are you from? 5mo
Chrissyreadit @Jari-chan did you grow up in Switzerland? @starlight97 what genre do you like to read? I am of Hungarian descent but do not know many books that have been translated to English to give me a flavor of Hungary. 5mo
starlight97 @Jari-chan so how do you know Hungarian? 😅 I'm from the Great Plain, currently live in Baja by the river Danube, near the Serbian border 😊 5mo
starlight97 @Chrissyreadit I read mostly anything except romance 😄 there are some great books that have been translated to English, I can recommend the works of Magda Szabó for example 😊 5mo
Jari-chan @Chrissyreadit Yes, I'm about 100% Swiss 😅 @starlight97 I've spent a year in Hungary. Also some months in Szeged 😊 5mo
Chrissyreadit I have stacked The Door, and am curious as well as ignorant about genres- so many books i see from Eastern Europe are more serious- but i feel like i rarely see more light (Like Jane Austen‘s) or fantasy - are there good options of those genres through a Hungarian lens that you know of? Also what is a popular children‘s book? 5mo
starlight97 @Jari-chan ah I see! Did you like it? 😊 5mo
starlight97 @Chrissyreadit there are some Hungarian authors who write sci-fi and fantasy under pseudonyms, like Brandon Hackett, Leslie L. Lawrence or Vavyan Fable. I'm not really up to date with children's books but some I loved as a kid were by István Csukás, Veronika Marék, Éva Janikovszky or Zoltán Zelk. I'm not sure if these were ever translated though. 5mo
Chrissyreadit ❤️ that‘s great for me to look up though- thank you. my Father was very proud of being Hungarian but i only know a tiny bit. 5mo
Jari-chan @starlight97 Yes, of course! I get homesick for Hungary pretty often ☺️ 5mo
starlight97 @Chrissyreadit you're welcome! 🇭🇺 5mo
starlight97 @Jari-chan that's so great 😄😊 5mo
dabbe Hello there, sweetly sunny kitty! 🖤🐾🖤 5mo
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starlight97
Ida regnye | Gza Grdonyi
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Lazy Sunday reading with Loki 🐾💙
#catsoflitsy #hungarian

Soubhiville 🩵 Kitty snuggles 🩵 7mo
starlight97 @Soubhiville 😸❣️ 7mo
RaeLovesToRead Loki! 🥰🥰 7mo
dabbe Hello there, Lovely Loki! 🖤🐾🖤 7mo
27 likes4 comments
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KristiAhlers
The Bone Fire | Gyrgy Dragomn
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Mehso-so

Whilst I liked the premise...I wasn't thrilled with the the execution and for me the story fell flat. I prefer a character driven read and this one was just a little too much world building and too little character growth.

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Graywacke
Fatelessness | Imre Kertesz
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Pickpick

Really powerful, but hard to review, especially in this condensed context. Kertész, a non-religious Jewish Hungarian, was a concentration camp survivor, entering the camps at age 14 (and lying about his age). This is a fictional parallel experience, deviant in that our narrator doesn‘t judge as we do, but takes things as they come, processing them in his own practical way. He‘s young enough that this is, in a way, his only reality.

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Graywacke
Fatelessness | Imre Kertesz
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Started this next

dabbe Love the cover! 🤩 7mo
JenP Great book. I hope you like it 7mo
Graywacke @JenP thanks. I‘ve wanted to read it for a while. 7mo
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Graywacke @dabbe I‘m not sure how i feel about the cover. It fits so far, in a way. 7mo
dabbe @Graywacke I look forward to your final thoughts once you read it. I just thought the ending of the road/pier fit perfectly with the title. 7mo
BarbaraBB Very curious about this one 7mo
BookwormM Amazing book I loved it 7mo
Graywacke @dabbe it does! @BarbaraBB me too ☺️ I think it‘s an important work. But also I read one or two really nice Club Read reviews, and that‘s what caught my interest. @BookwormM great to hear! 7mo
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RedCurly
Unknown Book 7535597 | Unknown Unknown
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One of my favourite quote from a Hungarian book:

,,Those who love each other, search each other. Even if the wind blows them apart, they coming back on their knees. If the sea aparts them, they send their souls throught the ocean: they meet in letter."

#love #hungarian ???❤❤❤❤

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Texreader
Katalin Street | Magda Szabo
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Catsandbooks Yay! 🇭🇺 8mo
BarbaraBB Yay! I hope you‘ll like it. She is a great writer. 8mo
Dilara Magda Szabó is one of my favourite authors. I hope you enjoy it 😁 8mo
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Lunakay
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Pickpick

"Journey by Moonlight": ?????
The protagonist is lost because the common expectations for an adult don't work for him and it's questioned whether they actually work for anyone. Many options of escape are shown, all have their downsides, but somehow everyone has to deal with life (and death) as good as they can.

Got some yummy pastries from the Hungarian bakery, note the paprika on the napkin.?

#foodandlit
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Texreader Yum! How fortunate to have a Hungarian bakery that you can visit! 8mo
Catsandbooks Ooo those look so good! 🇭🇺❤️ 8mo
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Lunakay
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Just a blurb about how much I love the #foodandlit challenge. Every month my horizon expands to more of the world's literature, history, culture and of course various delicacies🥰

This book is another example, I don't think I would have found it otherwise. It feels very modern for a product of the 30s.
It's also quite refreshing to read from and less about this decade, without any artificial foreshadowing of the war.
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Texreader Very happy to hear this!! Thank you!! 8mo
Catsandbooks So glad you're a part of our group and enjoy it so much! ❤️ 8mo
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