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Hello, Litsy bookish people! This is my first post and it‘s about a brilliant novel imo that I finished last night: Radetzky March by Josep Roth, here shown in my Dutch translation copy. About the dying Habsburg empire, told through the eyes of a father and his son, a reluctant military man, the threat of oncoming war looming constantly. About loss of innocence, withholding emotions and the passage of time.

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1.By far the tagged book, a haunting elegy for the Austro-Hungarian Empire,and a powerful WWI chronicle.
2. Busiest month of the year when it comes to work!I really need to keep up with my book reviews!

The last history book of the year!

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This book is beautifully written, the story is a bit dissapointing (or perhaps this is one of those books you have to read more than once).
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Reading outside ☀️
Wishing you could hear all the birds😊

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This book describes the fall of the Habsburger empire along the lives of three generations. An interesting theme, a style of writing I liked and some interesting and well worked out characters. Still I was a bit disappointed at the end. Maybe I expected too much or maybe I missed the point. Unsatisfying. #1001books Picture: Cadzand, Holland

It's day 7 of #marchintoreading. I'm putting this up in case anyone missed it and for any new Littens who want to join in!

Just so beautifully written. It's about three male generations of a family, honor, appearances, and the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It wasn't a quick starter, but it drew me in after about 40 pages or so.

Trotta was not sufficiently experienced to know that even in real life there are untutored peasant lads with hearts of gold and that a lot of truth, however clumsily rendered, is put into badly written books.

In those days before the Great War when the events narrated in this book took place, it had not yet become a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died. When one of the living had been extinguished another did not at once take his place in order to obliterate him: there was a gap where he had been, and both close and distant witnesses of his demise fell silent whenever they became aware of this gap.

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A copy of this sat unread on my shelves for years back in Canada. It's either in a box somewhere at my parents' or more likely long gone when I liquidated my library of 10,000 books in order to move to Japan. I'm ready to recommit!