'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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Reading Journal Teil 2 – Was ich gelesen und ergänzt habe ✨📖
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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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#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.
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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Keeping an analogue reading journal this year.
Not going to lie, I mostly rate books 5 because I love a good time and if the book isn't good MOST of the time I stop reading it lol.
I mentioned before that I'm using a pre-printed reading journal this year (and last year), and then I customize it as much / little as I want - so January is completed, and I'm pretty happy with it. I will add more decoration as spoons allow.
I printed out my statistics pages from The StoryGraph, and I've made my reviews 1 page instead of 2 (not posted here due to spoilers).
Julé Cunningham
Ariane - Chaos und Comics
Willow (she/her)
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