Reading in the park during my break and watching the duckies 🦆🦆
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Reading in the park during my break and watching the duckies 🦆🦆
Visiting Oma 👵🏻 and reading the last pages of this moving novel while she is preparing dinner ❤
"Harry - yer a wizard."
Reading the series in English for the first time ?⚡️?
Lovely Saturday night 📚🍷
Finally organised my shelves, unfortunately couldn't fit everything in them
A funny read to entertain me on my way to Portugal where I'll spend Christmas with family ✈️🇵🇹
Just moved and set up my new reading nook, now I desperately need to organise my bookshelf 😅📚
Loving this book ❤️
Funny read at a cozy cafe in Dortmund ☕️🍪
Today's book haul!
New notebook for new writings 📖📝
"The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more"
Photo taken in Villa Huegel, Essen, Germany
Ordered this after reading Nick Hornby's review for the Believer in the Complete Polysyllabic Spree, very excited to read it!
As said by one of the gods of Early Earth
"What happened to the Yugoslav communists is what has happened to all throughout the long history of man who have ever subordinated their individual fate and the fate of mankind exclusively to one idea: unconsciously they described the Soviet Union and Stalin in terms required by their own struggle and its justification."
Picked this up the other day at a market in #Amsterdam. The book is written by the former vice-president of #Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas. He was imprisoned by the Yugoslavian government from 1957 to 1961 and was returned to prison in 1962 because of the publication of this book.
Reading this incredibly cozy and funny book after a nice walk through the mire in Drenthe, The Netherlands 🍂🍁🌰
Ready for my 3 hour train ride with some Steinbeck, water and my favourite bookmark from the National Museum of Finland 🚂📚🇫🇮
Latest book haul from Riga! Especially happy with We The Living as I was searching for another Ayn Rand book after reading Anthem this summer. Also very curious about Puppet Maker, about a Latvian born doctor living in London who is in search of what happened to his father in Siberia in 1941 during the Soviet occupation. The clue to this mystery lies in a wooden puppet...
My favourite used bookshop in Riga, Latvia, where I spent a huge amount of time during my semester abroad. It was great to be back and naturally I couldn't leave empty handed 🙊❤️🇱🇻#Robertsbooks
Shown on this page: after the capitulation of the underground home army of Poland on the 3rd of October 1944, the women of the '3 Wikra company' were recognised as soldiers by the Germans and sent to PoW camps in Germany.
Finally started this today, after my friend kept recommending it to me. According to the Washington Post it's the Brave New World for our brave new world, sounds promising! Only a few pages in but I already like it 📚☕️
Look what came in the mail today 😍! I am SO excited to start this book
Just ordered this really cool graphic novel, made by two students who went to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw during the '70s and stayed there to live as artists. Behind the Curtain is a portrait of the cultural environment that flourished against the backdrop of the harsh realities of the communist state.
Ohhhhh I NEED this in my life 😍🙌🏼
For me it's quite the opposite actually; the fear of never being able to read all that I want to read 😅
"I tried his mobile for the one zillionth time, but it wasn't on. When we first split up, he called me a stalker, but that's like an emotive word, 'stalker', isn't it? I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door. And I only turned up at his work twice. Three times, if you count the Christmas party, which I don't. "
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Something to entertain me on my train ride today. I absolutely LOVED high fidelity so I'm curious about how I'll like this book. The first sentences are already rather intriguing: "Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower-block? Of course I can explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower-block. I'm not a bloody idiot."
Inside my favourite used bookshop in Amsterdam - the book exchange - where I found this really cool and really strange book. Read it if you liked 1984 and if you're into satire!
€4 book haul
Randomly picked up this book because I liked the cover and I love, love, LOVE it so far! The story keeps moving in unpredictable directions and the prose is just enchanting 💖📚
Stranger Things got me all in the mood for something supernatural ⚡️
Found this beautiful illustrated hardcover copy of Jane Austen's Emma at the thrift store and naturally just had to have it 😍
A bizarre memoir of a boy being dumped by his mother with her even more bizarre psychiatrist and his crazy family. Truly one of the weirdest books I've read and almost unbelievable that this actually happened! #somethingforsept #weirdbooks
Sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted -
stretched there upon my bed
in the dark
looking upward at the ceiling
I get what many will consider an
obnoxious thought:
it's still nice to be
Bukowski.
Simone van der Vlugt - The empty city: A Dutch historical novel about the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940, during which almost the entire city was destroyed. Today it is our most modern city
"When the sword of the tongue is drawn, it inflicts deeper cuts than the strongest blade" ??
"By then, however, the knowledge was of no use to him, except to remind him of what he should never have forgotten, that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits or magic wands. Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough." ☄?
The perfect read at the beach: passionate, mysterious and very playful 🌞🌊
