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My #10BeforeTheEnd are:
The Adventure of Vela for #Samoa
The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout and Black Suits You so Well by Ahlam Mosteghanemi for #Algeria
The Devil in Love by Cazotte and Fontamara by Ignazio Silone for #Italy
Paris noir
Edith Wharton's Ghost Stories
Jami's Mejnun & Leila
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Zijian Chi
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
(tagged countries for #FoodAndLit )
@ChaoticMissAdventures

Camus drifts through life untouched by its expectations, and that very detachment terrifies everyone around him. It‘s haunting, the way indifference becomes rebellion; how honesty, stripped of illusion, unsettles those still pretending to understand life. Camus forces you to confront that raw truth, that existence doesn‘t promise purpose, yet we live anyway. And maybe that‘s the point. To exist without needing reason, to linger.

Very interestingly written history of Algeria and France throughout the twentieth century, using his father as the focus.
At times shocking but not dwelling on the horrors of colonialism.

I like to read the books my kids are assigned for the year, if I haven‘t yet. This is an assignment for my son‘s 9th grade lit. I think this is very good literature, but very heavy topics. I am also not for censoring, but maybe too much for 9th grade? What do you all think if you‘ve read it? Dealing with some serious violence, it makes me worry how impressionable 14 year olds are. Kind of a mix of Clockwork Orange and The Car Thief.

“Упродовж історії було стільки ж епідемій, скільки й війн; та все одно вони щоразу застають людей зненацька”.
— Альбер Камю, «Чума»

«Те, що правдиве для всіх лих у світі, правдиве і для чуми: вона змушує людей перевершувати самих себе».
— Чума

«Єдиний спосіб боротися з чумою — це порядність».
— Альбер Камю «Чума»

#ThePlague #AlbertCamus #Existentialism #LiteraryQuotes #ModernClassics #ReadToThink

The narrator receives a visitor in prison. Lined up next to each other in either side of the bars, so do the other prisoners. The conversations interupt one another. It's hard to talk with his girlfriend.

The manga version.

Very interesting. Just because you don't show emotion doesn't mean you are inhuman.

#twofortuesday

1) My first thought was to say Judy Blume for the 70s and 80s afab (I see some else did the same.) But that was only when I lived in white suburbia. When I moved to white rural US during middle school, nobody read any books and no one knew what I was talking about when I mentioned the books. :/ So, I suppose it‘s only for a certain group.

2) That said, the tagged book fits 2020. 😬

1: Latin bc it was the origin of so many languages

2: L‘Etranger (The Stranger) - I read it in French

#Two4Tuesday on Wednesday!! Thanks for tag @Kshakal

@TheSpineView