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#BookMoods Day 18: This fits the #Epistolary prompt to a T. A Big Bad Wolf book find.

"You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love."

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More and more I enjoy reading letters by famous people. They show us another side of this person, one not even the best biography can describe. Here we meet Kafka as he is: Kafka. Writing beautiful letters to his Milena. This love cannot be and will not be, but still they keep on going. That Milenas letters have gone missing is a tragedy. But it also gives this collection a special touch. We have only Kafkas side of view, the recipient is silent.⬇

Here's my #BookSpinBingo list for June. The last few are my Jokers again. Either I read a random book or one for the mentioned challenge.

Can you believe it - it's June already!

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

First book of the year. #bookriotchallenge

I did a thing...I‘ve decided to take my old dog blog and expand it to include longer book reviews. I‘ve just published my first review. If you‘re so inclined, please check it out here: https://wp.me/pKWKW-4s

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Finally finished! I‘m not a fan of Kafka and read this only because it is featured in a Turkish rom-com that I‘m obsessed with, but...there‘s no denying the magic in these letters. There‘s something haunting the pages of Kafka‘s private letters to a woman he clearly respected, admired, and loved, and despite there being no real narrative, I felt compelled to finish. #Bailey doesn‘t appreciate being a book prop. 😂 #dogsoflitsy #pitbullsoflitsy

I feel like every time I close a reading session, the Bookly app tells me I have even more time left to read this book, not less. How can I keep reading without making progress. 😭😭 I had really hoped to finish a couple books in progress this weekend, but I seem to be running into a brick wall. How can a book that is so short take so long to read?

I forgot to run my stopwatch while I listened to a new audiobook on my commute and didn‘t run it when I read a work, so my current total for #24B4Monday is 0️⃣, but the Kindle app says I have 2 1/2 hours to go in the tagged book, so I‘m going to switch back to print and see if I can‘t knock it out before I pass out and log a couple hours in the Readathon. It‘s either that or break into my #achristieswapisannounced package early. 😱🤔🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

I have things I need to do today, but I feel mentally unable to cope with adulting in any form, so instead of being responsible, I‘m indulging in some #SaturdaySnuggles, starting this book.
#bookandBailey #bailey #dogsoflitsy #pitbullsoflitsy

Y‘all. I need an intervention. Thanks to an author fan page on Facebook, I got sucked into a Turkish soap opera and have become completely obsessed. Erkenci Kuş (the show) is taking over my life. So much so, that even though I HATED The Metamorphosis in school, I ordered the tagged book because the MC in EK was reading it, said it was his favorite book, and the heroine said “she‘d memorized the whole book”

Send help. Or the next episode.

When Kafka gets clingy... 😂💙

"... as long as we must place our fingers in the wounds, we have the right to convince ourselves the wounds exist, and that they are deep." ?

Milena - what a rich heavy name, almost too full to be lifted, and in the beginning I didn't like it much, it seemed to me a Greek or Roman gone astray in Bohemia, violated by Czech, cheated of its accent, and yet in colour and form it is marvellously a woman, a woman whom one carries in one's arms out of the world, and out of the fire, I don't know which, and she presses herself willingly and trustingly into your arms.

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

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Just a few pages in, but here's a great excerpt from one of the first letters dated April 1920. "It occurs to me that I really can‘t remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the cafe, your figure, your dress, that I still see.”