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Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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lil1inblue
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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I'm going with 2 classics and one newer selection today:

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (my husband loves it, and we read it every Christmas)
2. “The Tell-Tale Heart“ by Edgar Allan Poe (it's just so good!)
3. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (It's too hard to pick a single story from this one)

#tlt #threelistthursday

dabbe #1: 🤩 #2: Have you ever seen the animated short narrated by James Mason? It's a must see! Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKOtXC4oyM
Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚
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lil1inblue @dabbe I can't wait to watch! 😍 7mo
dabbe @lil1inblue This is another excellent non-animated version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe0WyjiW5Ps

I would show both of these to my students after reading it; they LOVED both of them! 🤩😃🤗
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squirrelbrain
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Just a little tiny book haul today, because I definitely needed more books…

Popped into the library to pick up some ‘possibles‘ for the Women‘s Prize for fiction (and no I‘m not telling you how many library books I now have on loan!) and they had a book sale on, so I had to support, of course, by buying 5 books.

Young Queens is on the NF long list and came out today, and Mongrel because it‘s also rumoured for the Fiction Prize and sounds fab.

LeeRHarry I definitely felt that even though the Du Bois took some effort it was worth it in the end. Great haul 📚 😊 8mo
BarbaraBB I enjoyed Snap a lot! Also liked Flights, The Lowlands and Vitamine! 8mo
Hooked_on_books You nabbed some good ones! I know Love Songs is chunky, but I loved it and didn‘t want it to end. I also really liked Goodbye Vitamin. 8mo
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TrishB Love Songs was great and I enjoyed Snap. 8mo
Ruthiella I loved Goodbye Vitamin. I think you will like it. 8mo
batsy This reminds me of all the books I want to read! 😆 I enjoyed Snap. 8mo
Cathythoughts Very nice 👌🏻 I enjoyed Snap too. 8mo
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IuliaC
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Pickpick

Dense, reflective, philosophical. Longer and shorter personal and fictional stories and a brief history on plastination; an unnerving and haunting dissection of the human body and of human paroxysmal emotions.

"This always happens when she flies: she gets a bird‘s eye view of her whole life, of particular moments that you‘d think on the ground had been completely forgotten. The banal mechanism of the flashback, mechanical reminiscence."

Jari-chan Can't wait for my next Tokarczuk ❤️ 8mo
IuliaC @Jari-chan This one was my second and I enjoyed them both 😊 8mo
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BarbaraBB
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The stories in this book seem to be set between time and place. Olga Tokarczuk travels and writes about the people she meets, whom she talks to or only observes. But she also dives back in time and presents us the early days of anatomical studies. It may sound weird but I feel like I travelled with Tokarczuk and finishing the book feels like the arrival afterwards long flight.
It‘s an intense experience even though I didn‘t enjoy all stories.

ChaoticMissAdventures I am so glad you enjoyed this! It is quite unique. I think with all collective stories there will be some threads that are not for us. 10mo
Librarybelle I‘ve had this one on my radar 10mo
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Megabooks Sounds interesting!! Apparently I had already stacked this! 10mo
BarbaraBB @ChaoticMissAdventures Just like in real life! 10mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 10mo
squirrelbrain Great review! 10mo
Deblovestoread Love your review. Makes me want to pick it up even though short stories are not my thing. 10mo
rockpools Thanks @BarbaraBB Great review. I really do need to read this, don‘t I?! 10mo
BarbaraBB @rockpools I am still not sure… it is not a hard read though, so you could give it a try and see what you‘ll think 10mo
BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread Thank you! They are not short stories in the usual way, it reads like a novel - if that makes sense! 10mo
KarenUK Sounds really interesting. Great review x 10mo
youneverarrived Great review! 10mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I love this image at the bottom left corner by Abbey Lossing from a Conde Nast article about women travlers.
This book makes me think of traveling, and searching, and of people sitting around a fire telling stories.

The book is filled with storeis, some interlocking, some we keep coming back to, some we just get a glance at. I can see how some didn't like it - it can feel a bit disjointed, but if you are a traveler who dips in and out of areas

ChaoticMissAdventures this makes perfect sense. The book feels like traveling. gorgeous, interesting and a little bit chaotic.

I love Tokarczuks focus on more mature characters and her writing.
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ChaoticMissAdventures #FavBook2023 this is one of my top 10 of the year
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BarbaraBB I just finished the book and your review nails it! 10mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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5⭐
This is not a book for everyone. But this is the book for me. As a traveler I feel this book on many levels, the main thread follows a narrator as she travels the globe and tells us stories of other travelers. These stories start and stop in small bursts, some picking up pages and pages later some trickling to an inconclusive end. It reminded me of overheard conversations in airports or restaurants.
The language is utterly gorgeous.

Ruthiella Great review! 13mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty pic and great review 💛 13mo
BarbaraBB I somehow never got to this book despite all good reviews and prizes but your reviews does it for me; I need to get me a copy! O and I loved 13mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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This is written in Polish. Talking about how because so many people around the world know English we cease to have our own private language as so many others do.

This chapter (this is the entirety of it) stopped me in my tracks. I just love her writing her and the thought process, it is framed in a way I never thought to see it.

ChaoticMissAdventures “There are countries out there where people speak English. But not like us - we have our own languages hidden in our carry-on luggage, in our cosmetics bags, only ever using English when we travel, and then only in foreign countries, to foreign people. It's hard to imagine, but English is the real language! Oftentimes their only language. They don't have anything to fall back on or to turn to in moments of doubt. 13mo
ChaoticMissAdventures 2/How lost they must feel in the world, where all instructions, all the lurics of all the stupidest possible songs, all the menus, all the excruciating pamphlets and brochures - even the buttons in the lift! - are in their private language. They may be understood by anuone at any moment, whenever they open their mouths. They must have to write things down in special codes. 13mo
ChaoticMissAdventures 3/Wherever they are, people have unlimited access to them - they are accessible to everyone and everything! I heard there are plans in the works to get them some little language of their own, one of those dead ones no one else is using anyway, just so that for once they can have something just for them.” 13mo
charl08 It's such a fun way of thinking about how English works - so often (imho) this is written about as a deficit for those who have English as an additional language. 13mo
IuliaC This is such an interesting perspective. I've always wondered if I felt more comfortable or my life was easier in general or not if I had English as my native tongue... 13mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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“She thought about how no one had taught us to grow old, how we didn‘t know what it would be like. When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people. While we, for reasons never entirely clear, would remain young. We treated the old as though they were responsible for their condition somehow, as though they‘d done something to earn it, like some types of diabetes or arteriosclerosis.....“

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I am absolutely loving the language Tokarczuk uses in this novel. It is a meandering, thoughtful, book revolving around travel, and as a traveler I think I might be in love.

BarbaraBB I loved this book and the language too. 13mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that—in spite of all the risks involved—a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.

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honeydew_reader
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Worthy of its accolades. Tokarczuk has such a smooth way with words. I could read her bumble on as long as she wants to.

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Suet624
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Not sure why I just noticed this but I picked both of these up a week ago - in different towns, one free, one I paid for. I put them on a shelf and never noticed they pretty much have the same name. Weird. I must be ready to fly.

Tamra Weird! I have flight in my Libby queue. 🦜 2y
Suet624 @Tamra I'm a little confused as to why Flight was free. It was sitting outside of a local bookstore - maybe it was an advanced reader copy but it doesn't look like it. 2y
Tamra @Suet624 your lucky day! ☘️ 2y
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Megabooks Interesting! I enjoyed the Strong and want to read the other. 2y
Ruthiella I liked Flight. The internal family drama was well done, IMO. 2y
merelybookish Are you feeling trapped? 🤔😁 2y
Suet624 @merelybookish I probably was feeling that way when I got the books. 😊 now not so much. 2y
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vlwelser
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I admit this started as a rabbit hole. This book was mentioned in Come Fly with Me which we read in Nov for #SundayBuddyRead. And the audiobook is lovely. This is an early work by an award winning Polish author. It's short stories. It's nonlinear and some stories are broken up. Others are bite sized stand alone awesomeness.

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charl08
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As the little plane that will transport her to the main airport becomes aloft she sees a view so beautiful that for a moment she is overwhelmed by a kind of elation.... These islands, the sandy beaches are as much a part of her as her own hands and feet; the sea that winds up into foaming coils at the shores, scraps of ships and boats, the gentle, undulating shoreline, the green insides of the islands all belong to her.

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charl08
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk

Am I doing the right thing by telling stories? Wouldnt it be better to fasten the mind with a clip, tighten the reins and express myself not by means of stories and histories, but with the simplicity of a lecture, where in sentence ather sentence a single thought gets clarified, and then others are tacked onto it in the succeeding paragraphs? ....

Tales have a kind of inherent inertia...

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lauraisntwilder
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I read most of this before Christmas, then finished it over this past weekend. It's odd, because it's little fragments and not a linear story, but I think it would have been better without the break. I'd like to read to again sometime.

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Jari-chan
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Flights - what a fitting title. We're travelling from place to another, long texts, short texts, many characters that accompany us. Every now and then we meet the First Person Narrator again. This book is restless, and it feels like that. What a phenomenal author Olga Tokarczuk is! She doesn't need many words to drag ones soul out of the dark into the pure light. Amazing book, amazing writer.

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

Liz_M Stunning cover 3y
Jari-chan @Liz_M It really is a beautiful cover ❤️ 3y
BarbaraBB What a great review. I haven‘t dared read it yet while I loved 3y
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Jari-chan @BarbaraBB Thank you ❤️ And I loved the Plow as well! 🥰 3y
TheAromaofBooks Oooo this cover is fantastic!!! 3y
Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks It is, right? 🤩 3y
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triplem80
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Mehso-so

My #doublespin book for May -- I wasn't sure if I would make it, but I muddled through. I think my biggest issue was that I wasn't sure WHAT I was reading. Supposedly, it's a novel, but it did not feel like it at all. I think I kept reading because I wanted to make sense of it, but I never did. Oh well!

@TheAromaofBooks

#Booked2021 #TranslatedIntoYourFirstLanguage @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Cinfhen I had HIGH HOPES for this one too but I eventually bailed 🙈 3y
SamAnne Same here. Some of the vignettes I really liked. It just did not tie together for me. 3y
TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 3y
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Tonton
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
Simona It was my favourite book of 2019 and truly is the masterpiece ... 4y
Tonton @Simona It‘s wonderful! 4y
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cajunsyd
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Having mixed feelings about this one so far.

SamAnne Yes, I did too. Disjointed and some parts were just too graphically disgusting for me. 4y
cajunsyd @SamAnne yeah, some of the stories I like better than others but it is all over the place. Maybe that was her goal. 4y
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Hooked_on_books
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This book is a series of stories that seem to all link in some way, though I‘m not entirely certain. The theme of flight, whether on a plane, running away, or after death, is present throughout. It‘s a little odd and I didn‘t love it, but I did like it and the writing is good. I think it would be better in print given how short some of the pieces are; on audio it gets a little confusing.

#ReadingEurope2020 #Poland

BarbaraBB I still want to read this one as I loved 4y
Hooked_on_books @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle I picked this one up for the same reason. They are wildly different from each other, which in some ways is disappointing, but I also like it when an author can do that. I suspect if I reread this one, I‘d like it even more. I‘ll be interested to see what you both think of it. 4y
Lindy I listened to this first, and then read the print edition. Some of the scenes have stayed in my mind ever since, and it‘s been a year. It‘s an impressive accomplishment. 4y
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AnneCecilie
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Mehso-so

I‘m not sure about what I just read and I feel like I missed something.

The blurb says that this is a book about a group of people that doesn‘t acknowledge any form of religious or worldly authority who believe that the only way to escape is to be moving and never settle down

I didn‘t see that at all. I feel like I read about the preservation of the body after death in glass containers through history and the different sides to that.

SamAnne Parts of it I liked. Other parts I hated. It was so many vignettes that did not come together as a whole for me. 4y
AnneCecilie @SamAnne I totally agree. I liked the longer stories the best where we got to know the people a little. I didn‘t always see the point of the shorter ones. 4y
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AnneCecilie
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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#BookReport #WeeklyForcast

Just finished:
? Flights
? A book about Kjell Aukrust‘s creative world

Starting now:
? The seventh book in Läckberg‘s crime series

Next up:
? Djinn Patrol

? Still listening to the seventh Department Q book, and want to finish soon and start the eighth book.

Cinfhen What did u think of flights?? 4y
AnneCecilie @Cinfhen I‘m not sure, I feel like I missed something. I read on hoping everything would come together in the end, but that didn‘t happen either. 4y
Cinfhen I bailed 😝now I‘m kind of glad you did☺️ 4y
AnneCecilie @Cinfhen I‘m glad I finished it since I like her writing, but I like my books to have a point and I didn‘t feel like this one did. 4y
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AnneCecilie
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#BookReport

I‘m very happy about my reading this week.

? Finished both the book by Høyer and A Manual for Cleaning Women #BookSpin
? Read all the other in the stack, Lila #DoubleSpin and the bottom 4 for #24B4Monday
? Started the tagged book

? I‘ve listened to the seventh Department Q book

AnneCecilie I‘ve read for almost 10,5 hrs for the readathon @Andrew65 4y
Andrew65 Simply brilliant, you are on fire. 👏👏👏🙌🙌 4y
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Tanisha_A
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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@ju.ca.no #ispy my phone for a dark blue cover. I am at my parents' right now and most of my books are in another town, hence, not many options here. Thanks for tagging me, this is fun! 🐳💙

BarbaraBB Cool pic. 5y
Tanisha_A @BarbaraBB Thanks Barbara! 😃 5y
ju.ca.no I feel you as I am in a similar situation😂 this cover has a really beautiful blue 😍 5y
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Tanisha_A @ju.ca.no 😁 Hahah, such problems! Yep, i think she has a couple of other books with plain blue cover theme. I remember seeing Drive your Plow in similar blue. 5y
ju.ca.no @Tanisha_A looks really pretty! 5y
Tanisha_A @ju.ca.no I miss chatting with you and sharing random pictures, on Insta. I deactivated it for a bit, was spending way too much time scrolling endlessly. 🙄 5y
ju.ca.no @Tanisha_A me too!! But it‘s understandable! Good thing you actually managed to do it😅 we could keep contact beyond litsy via email or whatsapp or facebook (do you have that?) or of course snail mail (but that‘s so very slow for that distance😂)? 5y
Tanisha_A @ju.ca.no Yessss! I'll email you my phone number. We could talk on Whatsapp. This is your email address right, julianotteratgnx.at? We have to continue snail mail too. ♥️ 5y
ju.ca.no @Tanisha_A julianotter@gmx.at 🤗 I‘m looking foward to talking on whatsapp and snailmail of course too🤗 5y
Mirazzles I‘ve heard this book is great! I haven‘t read anything by this author but she‘s on my list. I hope you enjoy! 😊📚 5y
Tanisha_A @AWildMandaPanda I still have to get to this one, but i really liked Drive your Plow. I do think she is fabulous! 😃 5y
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alisiakae
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Omg thank you @Cinfhen for all the wonderful birthday goodies! Bun Bun is equally impressed. 😂

rabbitprincess Skritches for Bun Bun! 😻 5y
wanderinglynn Happy, happy birthday! 🎉🎂🥳 5y
AmyG Happy Birthday! 🎁🎂🎈 5y
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squirrelbrain What a lovely gift! ❤️ 5y
nelehelen Happy birthday!!! 5y
Cinfhen Enjoy xxx 5y
alisiakae @wanderinglynn @AmyG @nelehelen thank you ☺️ my birthday was actually a few weeks ago but I‘ll take birthday wishes again! 😄 5y
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Sugarshawny
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On to my middle school looking lunch and on to the next book of this new year. Excited to see how thought provoking this‘ll be!

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Tonton
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
Lindy Excellent news. 👍 5y
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mrozzz
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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This haul meant a lot to me not just because it came from Books Are Magic but because of the time I got to spend with friend & author Bianca Marais before and after ☺️ #bookhaul

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GatheringBooks
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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#FallIsBooked Day 19: This, so far, is gradually turning out to be a #FavoriteFallRead.

OriginalCyn620 👌🏻📚🖤🍁🍂 5y
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rather_be_reading
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The Nobel Prize winners!!

Suet624 Right now I‘m struggling through (edited) 5y
Caroline2 Dear oh dear!! Why do this nationalist old white dudes keep getting support like this?! 🤦‍♀️ 5y
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rather_be_reading @Suet624 i havent read anything from these authors 5y
rather_be_reading @melissajayne thx for the info! 5y
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Godpants
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When you haven‘t got enough of Olga Tokarczuk, so you start this one that‘s been sitting on your TBR right away.

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Ddzmini
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Finally the day is here we are headed to Hawaii so thankful and grateful to be able to move there 🙌🏽🙏😋

MicheleinPhilly Safe travels! 5y
Itchyfeetreader amazing safe travels 5y
Dawnrod1970 Safe travels 5y
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sudi Bon Voyage 5y
CafeMom What Island are you moving to? 5y
Ddzmini Thank you everyone I‘m here and loving my first day @MicheleinPhilly @Itchyfeetreader @Dawnrod1970 @sudi and @CafeMom 5y
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ReadingEnvy
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I've been reading this book off and on for two months, finally finishing it before the end of #WITmonth - I wouldn't really call this a novel as much as it is fragments with some shared themes. I enjoyed some of the writing and was glad one of the stories came back to conclude in the end. There are themes of travel, moving, death, relationships and what you can/can't control, and home. ⤵️

ReadingEnvy Flights won the Man Booker International Prize that awards the author and translator equally, so I should say I rarely thought about how this was originally Polish, except for some obvious Polish themes... That's to the great credit of the translator, Jennifer Croft. 5y
Ruthiella Cool. I tried it but couldn‘t get into the bits and pieces and found I wasn‘t retaining anything. 🙁 I think I really need a story to hang on to. 5y
ReadingEnvy @Ruthiella oh yeah i definitely didn't retain much of it. 5y
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slaroque
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Why I'm reading this: "That life is not for me. Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots. ... My energy derives from movement ..." p. 7.

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Cinfhen
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I showed great restraint at Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, I walked away with only one book, which was gifted to me by the fabulously witty & wonderful @MicheleinPhilly ♥️However, when it came to pizza, cookies and girly chatter there was no holding back. Perfect day in Philly with a great friend 😃 Always a blast, Michele 😘

KarenUK Sounds like a perfect day 💕 5y
Ruthiella Your willpower is commendable!🤪 (edited) 5y
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TrishB Perfect day 💕 5y
Cinfhen I did have a small list of books I wanted to purchase and the store didn‘t have any of the books in stock @Ruthiella so that helped with my restraint 😉and yes, still a perfect day @KarenUK @TrishB 🥰 5y
Reviewsbylola Totally jealous!!! 5y
Cinfhen We still NEED a #DarguschMeetUp @Reviewsbylola @MicheleinPhilly @Mdargusch @emilyhaldi I MISS YOU GUYS!!!!!!! Hope you‘re having a wonderful summer 5y
Mdargusch I‘m sad we didn‘t get to see you and @MicheleinPhilly 🙁 5y
emilyhaldi I miss you too!!!! @cinfhen I haven't been reading much but hopefully soon🤞🏻hope you're having an amazing summer!!! 5y
emilyhaldi Also very jealous of this little Philly date ❤️ 5y
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Niso
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“Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that—in spite of all the risks involved—a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

#quote #favourite #literaryfiction #womenintranslation

Fridameetslucy Hmmmm not sure about that but it‘s certainly poignant 5y
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Aimeesue
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I'm quite enjoying this book.

womenintranslation #wit

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Aimeesue
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True story: In my Litsy profile pic, I am holding a preserved human brain. (At the National Science Fair. It's not like I keep brains in my house, people!)

womenintranslation #wit

anneofgreentables Ever read Driving Mr Albert? The mention of brains reminded me of it. It wasn‘t a great book, but was definitely one of a kind. 😅 (edited) 5y
Aimeesue @CrazyLibraryGirl No, but I will definitely check it out! 5y
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Aimeesue
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Not my usual thing, but an article piqued my interest and it was available from the library via Libby, so I guess I'll just go with it. It won the Man Booker International, which is impressive.

womenintranslation #wit

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Lindy
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While my library has categorized this existential novel as short stories, I disagree. I‘m not sure what is, but I am sure that I loved it. It‘s an electrifying accumulation of fragmentary flights of fancy, historical & contemporary, interconnected in a variety of ways, most especially by the themes of escape & the preservation of human corpses. After the #audiobook, I picked it up in print to better absorb the magnificent language. #translation

Lindy @SamAnne I‘ve pulled together some thoughts. For me, the sign of an outstanding book is that I can see myself rereading it many times. This is that kind of book. 6y
GatheringBooks totally agree! i am loving it too! 5y
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Lindy
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That smile of theirs holds—or so it strikes us—a kind of promise that perhaps we will be born anew now, this time in the right time and the right place.

(Author photo from Internet)

sarahbarnes I really liked this one. 6y
Lindy @sarahbarnes I‘ve just gone to your feed and discovered that have several faves in common. 😊 6y
sarahbarnes That‘s so awesome! 😁 6y
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Lindy
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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My five-star reads this month include one that I‘ve not yet reviewed on Litsy: Flights. I‘m still gathering up the pieces from the way it exploded my mind.

SamAnne Look forward to your review. The book as a whole did not do it for me. Portions and pieces were poetic and I loved them. But it felt like a mishmash 6y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa You always find the most interesting looking books! 6y
Lindy @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Thanks! I like variety. I think I will make a separate post on that topic. 6y
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Lindy
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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I‘m 4 hours into this astonishing #audiobook and feeling alternately intrigued by the situations and lulled by the language. I had expected a collection of short stories but many of these brief pieces are more like prose poems or poetic essays. I‘m going to pick up the print version because there are so many great passages that I want to spend time absorbing and rereading.

Redwritinghood Other than the writing itself, I think the structure of the book is also part of the message here. I think reading it in print will help to see that better. 6y
Lindy @Redwritinghood I look forward to seeing it. I had paused my hold and now that I‘m ready to read the print copy, I‘m at the top of the queue at the library. 6y
Redwritinghood @Lindy Good that you can get to it soon while you‘re still thinking about it. To clarify, though, I don‘t mean the layout of the book so much as the way in which the vignettes are linked as an overarching theme of the book. I don‘t want to influence your take too much, so I‘ll not say any more until you‘ve had the chance to read further. 6y
Lindy @Redwritinghood I‘m noticing the links between pieces in the audio version. It‘s good. 👍 6y
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scowler1
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Pickpick

A series of essays really, with themes of travel and the preservation of human body parts. Very odd and quite brilliant in places. I took my time with this one, needed a day or two to digest parts of it.

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caitlady
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
Panpan

I was excited by the premise of this book and, like a lot of other reviewers have pointed out, it has some beautiful prose, but by the end I was really wanting to be done with it. The most interesting stories (the ones mentioned in the blurb) are the shortest ones and the longest ones are kind of dreadful.

SamAnne Yes. Completely agree. 6y
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SamAnne
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
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Panpan

Some beautiful writing. But self-indulgent, pretentious. Lazy? It seemed like a mishmash of musings on travel and encounters in airports, a few short stories on struggling couples, and then morbid stories involving plastination, old school autopsies and embalmed medical curios. Would have loved a book with just the journey stories. There is beautiful writing in the book but little cohesion.

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