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'Do you believe that all the world was created for men, even the stars in the sky? Might it not be that all the world was made for all the world? Or men for the stars? Or the stars for the trees and the trees for the stones?' -- from 'We Are Green and Trembling' by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, trans. Robin Myers

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'Dad had said ‘no’ to the system and broken what was unthinkable to break: the habit of accepting lies and lying, even to yourself, for the sake of survival. The effects of movchanka, the Great Hush, were so much deeper than I imagined. There hadn’t only been The Unsayable, there had also been The Unthinkable.' -- from 'Strong Roots' by Olia Hercules

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'Dad had said ‘no’ to the system and broken what was unthinkable to break: the habit of accepting lies and lying, even to yourself, for the sake of survival. The effects of movchanka, the Great Hush, were so much deeper than I imagined. There hadn’t only been The Unsayable, there had also been The Unthinkable.' -- from 'Strong Roots' by Olia Hercules

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'Dad had said ‘no’ to the system and broken what was unthinkable to break: the habit of accepting lies and lying, even to yourself, for the sake of survival. The effects of movchanka, the Great Hush, were so much deeper than I imagined. There hadn’t only been The Unsayable, there had also been The Unthinkable.' -- from 'Strong Roots' by Olia Hercules

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'Dad had said ‘no’ to the system and broken what was unthinkable to break: the habit of accepting lies and lying, even to yourself, for the sake of survival. The effects of movchanka, the Great Hush, were so much deeper than I imagined. There hadn’t only been The Unsayable, there had also been The Unthinkable.' -- from 'Strong Roots' by Olia Hercules

#BookQuote #UkrainianBookChallenge #reading #books #ReadingJournal #bookstodon

'Dad had said ‘no’ to the system and broken what was unthinkable to break: the habit of accepting lies and lying, even to yourself, for the sake of survival. The effects of movchanka, the Great Hush, were so much deeper than I imagined. There hadn’t only been The Unsayable, there had also been The Unthinkable.' -- from 'Strong Roots' by Olia Hercules

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“Never has it occurred to you that there are people poised with erasers to erase you, people prepared to stab your flesh with their knives, people ready to trample you…Why? For the simple reason that you are a little more visible than they, taller by a centimeter. Most people cannot bear that. You have no children, you’re not an invalid, you aren’t sufficiently ugly, you aren’t married, you’re a woman, you’ve ventured out into the world, you ‘sing’, you’re accountable to no one—all this is an excess of freedom, something that is not so easily forgiven.” -- from 'Fox' by Dubravka Ugresic, trans. Ellen Elias-Bursać, David Williams

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'To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live. But with our creaturely capacity for wonder comes a responsibility to it—the recognition what reality is not a singularity but a plane. Each time we presume to have seen the whole, the plane tilts ever so slightly to reveal new vistas of truth and new horizons of mystery, staggering us with the sudden sense that we had been looking at only a fragment, framed by our parochial point of view.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova

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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid

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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid

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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid

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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid

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#FridayReads include my current book, Fox by Dubravka Ugresic, an absolute treat for a reader. Underlying its various themes it's about stories and how they come into being. My current poetry read is the collected poems of the Chinese medieval poet Li Qingzhao, The Magpie at Night, which is a new translation of her work by Wendy Chen.

Lined up next are Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a retelling of the Aeneid in Lavinia's voice, a voice that wasn't heard in Virgil's work, and Strong Roots, a memoir of family, Ukraine and food by chef Olia Hercules.

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Then all of a sudden, with a joy that I had not known within myself, I said: “If you want to spend the rest of your life listening and watching this nonsense, that’s up to you, but just now I’ve realized I want to spend my life doing something beautiful.” -- from 'The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen' by Shokoofeh Azar; (translator is anonymous for security reasons)

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Le jeu de l'ange - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Editions Robert Laffont

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Années 1920-1930 à Barcelone, vingt ans avant le premier tome "L'ombre du vent".

Moins poétique et plus tourné vers le thriller mystérieux, plus sombre que le premier volume. Cependant l'auteur nous entraîne à nouveau dans une histoire haletante, passionnante, magnifiquement écrite.

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Decided to try and start journaling my reading and started with the best book possible to do this with.

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true imagination: Indignity by Lea Ypi

Sometimes the idea of a book far outshines the book itself.

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/true-imagination-indignity-by-lea-ypi/

#Criticism #Philosophy #Politics #ReadingJournal #Writing

The Good Soldier

Some thoughts on the novel by Ford Madox Ford.

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/the-good-soldier/

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Next Japanese read: 斜め屋敷の犯罪 by Soji Shimada (島田荘司).
(Tr. Murder in the Crooked House by Louise Heal Kawai).

I just did the pencil outline for the drawing. I drew it leaning too much to one side at first, so I had to erase and do again. This took me too much time already and it’s far from being complete…

If I come to a point where drawing the cover takes me more time than reading the book, I might drop this project :silly:

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I started 白鳥とコウモリ… I love Keigo Higashino so much!! I should read his books more often!

I just finished the drawings for my journal entry. I decided to do one for each volume, because the book is so great! (At least the first 80 pages I read.)

I did a quick search, and I’m pretty sure that the bridge on the covers is the Kiyosu Bridge (清洲橋), a key location in the novel. It’s cool that it’s not just a random Tokyo pic, but something related to the story.

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New book, new entry page in my reading journal!

The book in question is 作家不在場的謀殺 by 望日 (HK), a collection of five short stories. I saw that the author is both a writer and a publisher, and I think that the stories will be related to the publishing world.

I’m sure I will love this one!!

#HongKongLiterature #journaling #ReadingJournal

I still haven’t figured out how to set up my reading journal, but I thought it would be cool to add something related to the book cover art on each book entry. I like how some people print out small book covers, but I don’t have a printer. So I had the idea to just draw a part of the cover, starting with this one :blobcatartist:

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"Can you imagine a world where we suggested men who need testicular surgery for noncancerous reasons were advised to just have their testicles removed to prevent further surgery down the road? Everything sounds different when you translate it into men."

From the Menopause Manifesto, by Jen Gunter
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Cuppa and Catch Up, Long Time No See!

https://www.thedragonchronicle.com/cuppa-and-catch-up-long-time-no-see/

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Signs of a well loved reading journal.. I got my March tracker done, and filled in all the things that I had missed over the month. It's not neat and tidy, or even cohesive, but I still love it.

#readingjournal #reading #books

Some journaling supplies arrived today so I got to spend some time organizing everything into their new homes which I always love doing. Now washi & pet tape are together, stickers have more room.

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"For as much as feminists are painted as "man-haters," we're not the ones suggesting that boys and men lack the ability to think rationally, control their own be-havior, or act kindly toward other human beings-even with a boner."
-Asking for It, by Kate Harding

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"As it turns out, men are from earth, women are also from earth, and earthlings communicate indirectly all the time."
-Asking for It, by Kate Harding

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2025 #ReadingJournal

📚 Linghun by Ai Jiang 3.5/5 ⭐
📚 Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura, trans. Lucy North 3/5 ⭐
📚 Mona by Pola Oloixarac, trans. Adam Morris 4.5/5 ⭐
📚 La Reina de las Chicharras by V. Castro 5/5 ⭐

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New website page, hosted outside of #neocities bc I want to update my #ReadingJournal & #ReadingResources databases frequently on my phone. Introducing the Lair https://librarymonster.io/lair.html, hosted by #notion. More info and context about it on my website's homepage as the headline article https://librarymonster.io/

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I like organizing my journaling supplies almost as much as I like journaling (which is a lot..) Just doing some tidying up and getting a few more layouts in the reading journal ready.

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Stickers arrived today for my reading journal and ah goodness they’re lovely!!

#stickers #readingjournal #amreading