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Dilara
Soul Mountain | Gao Xingjian
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#10BeforeTheEnd update:
I finished Paris noir and The Adventures of Vela. I was planning on starting Mejnun and Leyla but after Vela, I need a break on the long-form poetry front, so Soul Mountain it is! As it is a doorstop and I have a few days off, it should be perfect.

@ChaoticMissAdventures

Pic is of the Chinese Garden in Chaumont, back in June

#NobelPrize

AnnCrystal Fantasy like 😍💝🤩. 5d
Dilara @AnnCrystal Totally! It's like entering Dream Land. 5d
ChaoticMissAdventures Gorgeous spot 😍 You are doing so well on the challenge!! 4d
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Pinta
Dandelions | Yasunari Kawabata
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Mehso-so

Pensive and atmospheric, Kawabata‘s last novel, left unfinished when he died. We never hear from the young woman brought to an asylum by her mother and fiancé in an attempt to cure her “body blindness,” her inability to see her lover in times of excitement. Communication through the pealing of bells. Father‘s life lost in a riding accident on a cliff. All very dramatic, almost Gothic. Trauma, memory, couples, bodies, guilt. Trans. 2017

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MariaW
Desert | J M G Le Clezio
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Pickpick

This has been a wonderful, very poetic book. It describes the life of two kids born in and off the desert one hundered years apart. Both face struggles and end up back where they belong - in the desert. This book is a beautiful allegory of the desert, I haven‘t been something that aesthetic in a long time.

Tamra Lovely spot! 3w
AnnCrystal 🤩🏖️💝. 3w
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MariaW
Wste: Roman | Jean-Marie G. Le Clzio
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Last days on the beach. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

AnnCrystal 🤩📚🏖️💝. 3w
tpixie Enjoy!! 3w
Blerdgal_Fenix love this for you 3w
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Hooked_on_books
Small Memories | Jos Saramago
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Pickpick

I‘m not usually a fan of childhood memoir, but I enjoyed this look back at Saramago‘s young years. Around 100 years ago in Portugal is so different from my own experience, and he tells vignettes, giving an overall impression rather than a straightforward recounting. His writing is just so good that I was carried along.

ChaoticMissAdventures I have not read this one but I absolutely love Jose Saramago. Brilliant writer. 3mo
Hooked_on_books @ChaoticMissAdventures I‘ve only read a few of his but definitely want to read more. The first I read from him is Blindness, which blew my socks off. I want to read anything that came out of that brain! 3mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @Hooked_on_books so good!! I have not read all of his (I think I have 3 to go) but this one is my favorite 3mo
Hooked_on_books @ChaoticMissAdventures One of the few that I‘ve read! It‘s so good! 3mo
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bibliothecarivs
Gunnar's Daughter | Sigrid Undset
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Recent home library acquisition

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bibliothecarivs
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture by Seamus Heaney

2013 review: ★★★★★

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dabbe
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻 6mo
dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙌🏻💛🙌🏻 6mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 6mo
dabbe @Eggs 🙌🏻💛🙌🏻 6mo
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julieclair
White Egrets: Poems | Derek Walcott
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#haikuaday #haikuhive

I love driving into my neighborhood in the evening and seeing these guys. 💟

bellabella So fun! They really are like fluffy cotton balls! 6mo
JenlovesJT47 💛💛💛🐝🐝 6mo
TheSpineView Hoe pretty! 😍😍😍 6mo
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AnnCrystal 🤩 Amazingly Beautiful 👏🏼😍👍🏼🐝💝. 6mo
BooksandCoffee4Me Beautiful! I see them in the water ways in our farmland here, but never in trees. 😮💛 6mo
dabbe I would get in a car wreck because I would be totally #gobsmacked looking at them! 💛🐝🖤 6mo
Reggie Sooo good! 6mo
julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me They spend their days in the waterways here, too. They only come to the trees towards evening. I read online that they like to spend their nights in trees/bushes because they‘re safer from predators if they‘re off the ground. That makes a lot of sense, since our alligators can‘t climb trees. (Although occasionally one does manage to climb up a few steps!) 6mo
julieclair @dabbe I often see people pulled to the side of the road looking at them! 6mo
DebinHawaii Wonderful! 💛🐝🖤I love the cattle egrets here too. I see them on the highway & in the neighborhood. I especially love it when they follow yard guys with leaf blowers single file to pick up insects & things they might stir up. Makes me smile! 6mo
julieclair @DebinHawaii That‘s a hoot about the yard guys! Smart birds! 6mo
lil1inblue What wonderful imagery! 😍 6mo
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Kristy_K
Afterlives | Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Mehso-so

I didn‘t appreciate this as much as I feel I should have. Historical fiction in war (WWI) and post-war Africa. Amazing writing, but not my typical read. Read for my country challenge.

#Tanzania #ReadtheWorld2025

GatheringBooks Oooh! You have a fantastic cover! I have a copy of this one but mine has a more boring cover which I haven‘t even cracked open yet. 6mo
Kristy_K @GatheringBooks I love this cover! Definitely bought b/c of it lol. 6mo
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