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Finished this for #mrbook1inamillion and absolutely loved it! Can‘t believe it took me this long to read. The people who say he‘s the master of the short story are not lying. I‘d love to study these or read some criticism of them, I feel like there‘s so much there that I didn‘t appreciate yet. I see now how many writers I love couldn‘t exist without Borges.

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Manages about 2 hours 20 of reading yesterday - not bad for a full workday, evening out with my boyfriend then travelling back to my parents house for the weekend it was quite a busy one! Should manage more today. Very excited to be in a bathtub again, my new flat doesn‘t have a tub! #mrbook1inamillion

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Made my start on #mrbook1inamillion challenge! Excited to be sharing this with you all I love group reading challenges like this.

1 hour reading this morning audiobook on way to work, gonna get another half hour in now on my lunch break 😊

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“Buckley did not believe in God, yet because wanted to prove to the nonexistent God that mortals could conceive and shape a world.”

How have I not read Borges before??? This is so incredible

I‘ve finally managed to get back into meditating the last three or four days which is great news for me and my fitness challenge! I‘ve had a horrid cold that‘s put a dampener on a lot of things - you don‘t feel very spiritual when you‘re full of snot 🤷‍♀️ - but just did my fourth day running of meditation on gorgeous bankside and then some reading. Feel like I‘m back on track.

#bfcr4 @wanderinglynn @jessinikkip @Melmar @LauraJ @suzie.reads

It‘s on one of the walls of our public library

2/2 of the replenishments for my #HispanicHeritageMonth Display 😊!

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksDisplays

Everyone need to read this... especially The Library of Babel.
4.8/5 😩👌❤️

#DontCryforMeArgentina #WanderingJune
Turns out that Borges was not a fan of Evita or Juan Peron- interesting Wikipedia article describing their feud. He might be the only Argentine author I've read, but Cortazar is high on my list of authors to try.
@BarbaraBB @Cinfhen

“Perhaps old age and fear deceive me, but I suspect that the human species -the only one- is nearing extinction and that the Library will endure: illuminated, lonely, infinite, perfectly still, armed with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.”

❤️

“To one of these gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or (more precisely) a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are hateful because they multiply and spread it.”

My Goodreads review is too long to fit here, alas! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2802451787

A collection of odd stories, all having to do with books (thus the title). The vocabulary, structure, and content of this book mean it‘s not an easy read, but I liked the oddness. Like a cross between Calvino and Mieville—but Borges came first. #intranslation #1001books #1000books #501books

'In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do so many Englishmen; dead, he is not even the ghostly creature he was then.'

I ordered from a bookseller called “reuse a book” (through Abe Books) and was bemused but thrilled to get a totally unrelated bookmark with my book. (Who doesn‘t love bonus bookmarks!) Then I looked closer and it seems the bookseller has a mutually beneficial deal with the Jane Austen Centre. Awesome. But I don‘t think I can use it with this book. 😂 Need to look through my bookmark collection for a better match. 🤓

Just finished the first story in this collection. Highly imaginative as to be expected. On to the next.. #litsypartyofone

Collection of short stories, which are written in different styles/genres, but all of them revolve around labyrinths, infinity, death, dreams, memory ... they are glimpse in Borges‘ abstract reality - a world driven by imagination, human complexity and absurdity. I didn‘t understand all of them, their hidden meanings is too hidden in metaphors for me ... however, I was deeply seduced by his poetic language and by eccentricity of the stories.

My favorite book from Argentina is "Ficciones" (Fictions) by Jorge Luis Borges, one of the best writers of the 20th century in the world. Short stories, magical, mystical, about the universe, about literature, fantasy and fantastic.
Would recommend it to anyone who loves literature. (It's still baffling that he never got a Nobel)

#Whereintheuniverse Which is yours? Don't forget to tag me!

#library #quotsy #quotsynov17

"The Circular Ruins" is one of my favorite short stories. #SouthAmericanWriters #FallIntoBooks @RealLifeReading

I've read pieces of this book, but need to give it another try when I have time to focus. Anyone tackled it? #southamericanauthors #tbr #fallintoreading

These stories will definitely take you through the looking glass and make you feel #InsaneInTheBrain . Infinite libraries, scholarly analysis of non-existent lands, duplicating Don Quixote... In these stories Borges invites you into his brain, which clearly has some insanity to spare, but in the best possible way- a strange, dizzying, and pretty wonderful place. #90sInJuly @Robothugs @Cinfhen

These short stories were so strange and intricate. Each one had layers--or rather labyrinths--that made you want to read slowly and savor all the depths. Certain images kept popping up--mirrors, simulacrums, books, libraries. At times the narratives blurred fiction and reality. My favorites were "Death and the Compass", "The Circular Ruins", "The Library of Babel", "The South", "Funes, the Memorious", and "The Garden of Forking Paths."

"The goal that led him on was not impossible, though it was clearly supernatural: He wanted to dream a man. He wanted to dream him completely, in painstaking detail, and impose him upon reality."

I've had a few problems trying to upload images, but now it's solved and I'm coming with tons of books!

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He tenido problemillas intentando subir imágenes, ¡pero creo que está arreglado y vengo con montones de libros!

#northernlights #philippullman #HeartofDarkness #JosephConrad #Borges #1984 #Kafka #JaneEyre

#disabilities
An avid reader, Borges was not born blind, he became blind after cruelly ironically he was appointed director of the Argentinean library. Borges addressed his blindness in both his poetry and prose. He addressed his blindness both literally and metaphorically. Borges has been a constant companion since I first read him.

"...misurava le virtù degli altri dalle loro opere, e chiedeva che gli altri misurassero lui dalle sue intenzioni e illuminazioni".
Una fantastica raccolta in cui Borges attraversa tutti gli stili narrativi, toccando una moltitudine di argomenti. Un esercizio di stile, in cui l'autore libera le sue fantastiche congetture e le sue metafisiche interrogazioni. Pur essendo "finzioni", sono credibili, sono plausibili. È lo stile che è efficace.

Yes

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

My going to the bookstore shirt!

#somethingforsept #greatquote Yes please

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote is hilarious and amazing.

Amazing!

You know the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where they put the Ark of the Covenant in a huge warehouse full of anonymous crates? Borges writes the whole world like that, and beautifully. One of my touchstone authors.