pick#classicschallenge 2025 @Lunakay #2025reads #poetry
18 pieces of prose poetry of varying length scattered with wonderful imagery.
I read “A Hunger Artist: Four Stories“ by Franz Kafka last year, it was beautiful though not a happy read but since then I've become more interested in Kafka‘s work.
A day late, organizing some books, and I found this for #coverlove #hat
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickThis 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. 😊
pickInteresting intersection of philosophy and psychology and historical fiction. Also interestingly found out it's Ari's favorite book. Enjoyed the insights into each character's mind and worldview.
First book of quarantine.
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
Intro
Weekly Highlights
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
