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A couple of finds today: a not very old Puffin edition of former National Poet of Wales, Gwyn Jones' Mabinogion retelling, but it has an evocative cover and some nice line illustrations.
The Golem is one of my favourite books, and this is a new to me translation, published in Czechia, so I'm guessing the original owner bought it as a souvenir, but that's an assumption as unreliable as the narrator.
🧀+🍷+🌰+📚+🎶=😌

I've been wanting to read this one for years now, and I finally did! It turned out to be something totally different than what I had in mind. Even though I'm not quite sure what exactly I had imagined it to be.

The language is very special and it took me some time to get used to it. But once I tuned into it, I read with the flow. However, the story itself couldn't quite catch me. Neither did the characters.

@PuddleJumper #roll100

My #roll100 for October has arrived 😊 I've wanted to read this book since our vacation in Prague. Now thanks to @PuddleJumper I'll finally do so 😄

Reading "The Golem" is like having a fever dream. Reality and imagination bleed into each other for both the reader and the (extremely) unreliable narrator, amnesiac Athanasius Pernath. Through a haze of alchemical philosophy, tarot symbolism and cabbalistic mysticism, Pernath (or somebody dreaming they're Pernath) seeks to penetrate the mystery of the Golem myth in the ghetto of 18th century Prague. Borges and Jung admired this book: high praise.

today started off really really bad - what better way to cheer oneself up than buying new books? 😊 also only paid 4€ in total, so I don't even have to feel bad about it 😊

#AllHallowsRead - A #ScaryRead in translation- although I've heard it's more eerie than scary. Looking forward to reading this next time I'm in the mood for a creepy book.