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A couple of finds today: a not very old Puffin edition of former National Poet of Wales, Gwyn Jones' Mabinogion retelling, but it has an evocative cover and some nice line illustrations.
The Golem is one of my favourite books, and this is a new to me translation, published in Czechia, so I'm guessing the original owner bought it as a souvenir, but that's an assumption as unreliable as the narrator.
🧀+🍷+🌰+📚+🎶=😌

Whether it's visual art, music, movies, or literature, I love seeing an artist reference their own favorite influences. In Oyeyemi's latest, she mashes up two Calvino novels - If on a winter's night and Invisible Cities (maybe more? - those are the only two I've read) with a few nods to Borges mixed in. It's perfect fuel for this meditation on the infinity of mental representations of the same city that exist in the minds of its visitors 👇

A friend brought us a bouquet from her garden yesterday, and I thought it would look nice with these library holds I‘m very excited about!! 💜📚💐

We have a fantastic novel to discuss this week. Laurent Binet's debut novel “HHhH“ has been on both our radars since its release over a decade ago and our high expectations were met and exceeded by this brilliant, thrilling, and important book. We highly recommend this book and we hope you enjoy our conversation about all things “HHhH.“

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0YJ0Hwirv08rBPPHBry1oQ

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

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...

I absolutely loved this little gem of a book. It comes in at only 155 pages but Chatwin says so much within those pages in this elegant novel about a collector of Meissen porcelain in Communist-era Prague.

Second finish for #RushAThon #Readathon

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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

Soft pick, just BC the creep factor. This novel in verse is set in Prague during WW2, and present day. It is lyrical and mystical. A young girl is staying with her artist aunt in Prague, and is fascinated by the cemetery and it‘s environs, where she sees a teen boy and younger girl who are trapped in between death and the Neverwhere.

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick

In anticipation of an anniversary trip last wknd i rd this + it helped inform me of a terrible history. 2 men, a Czech + a Slovak parachute back to assassinate heydrich.An incredible tale of bravery, sacrifice, betrayal & cruelty. I struggled with the format of the author as a character explaining how he wrote the bk. I loved Prague, so plan to return to see the beautiful city + visit the cathedral where the final scenes occur, a remarkable tale