I'm not from US, but I want to share with you my reading gang. Book in the tag is my favorite in January and it was #brainfuel for me.
#dogsoflitsy #catsoflitsy #petsoflitsy
pickThe book is autobiographical novel divided into three parts and the story is an extensive record of the author's intimate inner life in the time of WWII and post-war events.It's a first person narration about an immigrant who has experienced life of a eternal outcast and about his thoughtful attitude towards the things that makes sense in his life-books, writing, language and words.
Longer review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1868397217
My breakfast during which I have to decide which one will be the fourth book for #24in48 #readathon I want to start Disgrace, but I also want to finish book in the tag..... #sweetbookishproblems
This is my current read and it wasn't literally #recommendedby, but I was encouraged to read it by @shawnmooney Author is a Slovenian and this work (his memories) is considered as "one of the most important Slovene novels of the 20th Century '. And my shameful confession ? - I read Slovenian authors very little, especially young / modern authors, I know only by names.?
#readjanuary
bailed90 pages in, I just can't go on. Too Proustian for me. So far there has been about three pages worth of narrated story and the rest, while extremely well-written and/or translated, has been pages-long atmospheric descriptions of the settings as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Um, no thank you: I'm good.
A potica is a Slovenian nutroll such as is shown in the photo. I bet @Simona knows how to make it!
Fascinating that, in this English translation of the original Slovenian novel, the German dialogue is rendered in German in the text with the English translation of that German footnoted at the bottom of the page. My guess is the same was done in the original except the footnote translations were to Slovenian. The family (German mother and Slovenian father) have just moved to Slovenia after being deported from Switzerland before WWII breaks out.
A few short pages in, and this book is already charming the pants off me...
Bonjour fellow book lovers! My name is Alayna! I just turned 21 and love to read and write! I read anything really and am looking forwards to meeting new people and new books! I also have a tumblr where all my book photography can be found www.SNAP-those-books.tumblr.com
"A picture showed Hitler and the other scary man. The one with the low forehead and the fringe-like hair from the caricatures, who led the Jews and the communists, Stalin." - world politics through the eyes of an 8 year old.
When the author decides to describe a little boy's first horse ride through a Slovenian countryside for five pages, there's nothing you can do but grab a coffee and ride along.. Some books, like this one, you just don't read fast. You savor each sentence like little bites of freshly baked pastry.
"I was traveling, traveling through an endless expanse to a country that had lots of horses waiting in stables.." Little does the boy know what actually awaits him in the country he's going to - Slovenia. This autobiographical work is so compelling.
Over the top excited to read this translated Slovenian gem! Archipelago books have the best feel!
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