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A day late, organizing some books, and I found this for #coverlove #hat

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This is a very touching depiction of how it feels to be an immigrant returning to your home country 20 or 30 years later. After the fall of communism in 1989 in Europe, Irena returns from Paris to Prague. She and others like her return led by nostalgia, but the ignorance, under all its forms, displayed by their relatives and former friends shows how absence can create a huge chasm between people, with no hope to reconnect with the past.

Our Icelandic tradition continues! We‘re cozied up by the fire with chocolates and our new books! I‘ve been dying to read this play, so I‘m thrilled. 😊

This is a slender little book that I keep picking up when I walk by the piles of books on my table whenever I go to let the dog out. This last time I decided the universe was telling me to pick it up. Maybe I‘ll learn something because as of right now, I‘m a crap gardener.

"Human beings are dangerously capricious apes whom only their own shameless arrogance has tried to make out the lords of creation."
- In the Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman, by Josef Nesvadba

https://youtu.be/BhiPsquNRXc

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The Imaginary Lives Of James Pōneke by Tina Makereti

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson

And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiří Weil, Marie Winn (Translator)

No Bones by Anna Burns

I loved this book so much, it really was my companion while growing into adulthood.

I read most of his books after this one and loved many of them, but this one stood out for all those years.

RIP Milan Kundera.

How fitting a tribute as the author Milan Kundera just passed away yesterday at the age of 91. I‘m LOVING this book @TrishB it‘s perfect for dipping into when you have a few minutes 🥰