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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. 😊

Interesting 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.

Gave up on the other grandmother book and started this one, which is much more to my taste. Božena Němcová is a famous 19th-century #Czech author (she's on the 500 Koruna banknote). The book title says it all 😁 Lovely sense of time and place. As expected in this kind of work, a lot of religiosity.

painting: Großmutter ist die Beste by Adolf Humborg, Wikimedia Commons

Enjoying #Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval's poetry collection #Prague with Fingers of Rain and looking through the (mostly disappointing) photos we took when we spent a lovely week there back in 2008...

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

Wanted to show off my hardcover Kunderas . I bought “Unbearable”new , I think I read The NY Times review. Probably one of the major indicators that I was falling in love with literary fiction. Found this copy of the Joke years ago, being how it was published in 1969 , I felt happy to find one in such good condition.

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.