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My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

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Mŕtvy na Pekelnom vrchu (Kapitán Stein a notár Barbarič, #1)

Vývoj života: deset velkých vynálezů evoluce

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

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dzana

Thoughts from 1% (page 5)

I am re-reading WH after 10 years, so I can watch the new movie and complain!

Because sometimes I really like to complain about things and I am not ashamed of it. So I have my color stickers ready to mark everything, so excited!! :D

Anyone in the same situation?

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dzana

Thoughts from 11% (page 35)

I got this book for X-mas and I was postponing reading it because I was afraid it will be too poetic (based on reviews) and so the English will be too complicated. BUT this book is truly beautiful already, fun to read (part about sleeping being weird thing was great) and easy to follow! So if you are postponing this read, I high recommend you to start:)

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evanroberts

Thoughts from 12% (page 40)

Immediately in love with this writing style and this compelling story

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mmaarr

Thoughts from 1% (page 3)

I am literally only on the opening paragraph and I already feel like I’m in for an amazing book. Idk, something about this first line really struck me:

“Maybe it was that Cyrus had done the wrong drugs in the right order, or the right drugs in the wrong order, but when God finally spoke back to him after twenty-seven years of silence, what Cyrus wanted more than anything else was a do-over.”

it says so much in one sentence, and the author’s poet roots really shine through. I am so excited to see what the rest of the book has in store!

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Thoughts from 11% (page 35)

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hellojac

Thoughts from 11% (page 36)

I grabbed the Signet Classic edition of this book off my in-laws bookshelf to bring on a camping trip. I have not read classics since high school (20 years ago!) and found it so difficult to read, especially Joseph’s speech. I was three chapters in and almost DNF’d but then decided to give reading out loud a try and found that to be so helpful to actually understand what is happening. Anyone else experience this?? Plus it doubles as a live audiobook for my husband to fall asleep to 😆

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed. Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

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Thoughts from 1% (page 5)

I am re-reading WH after 10 years, so I can watch the new movie and complain!

Because sometimes I really like to complain about things and I am not ashamed of it. So I have my color stickers ready to mark everything, so excited!! :D

Anyone in the same situation?

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother, Hindley, sinks into bitter resentment. As Catherine and Heathcliff mature, and their affection blossoms into desire, Hindley’s resentment boils over into hatred, setting the stage for a tragic drama whose aftermath will shake the foundations of their world.

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dzana

Thoughts from 1% (page 5)

I am re-reading WH after 10 years, so I can watch the new movie and complain!

Because sometimes I really like to complain about things and I am not ashamed of it. So I have my color stickers ready to mark everything, so excited!! :D

Anyone in the same situation?

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

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