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Saskia’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Saskia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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De schoonheid van angst
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De gelukkige neuroot
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2022
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"Il m’a fallu 3 semaines pour lire 5% du livre alors que le 95% restant m’a pris 48 heures. J’accorde un 6/5. Le voyage d’Émile et Joanne est touchant et magnifique. Les citations sont soigneusement choisies et m’ont fait refléchir. Les mots me manque"
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"De moeite waard om al die bladzijdes te lezen... Eerst dacht ik een soort roadtrip te lezen, maar er volgde al snel meer; diepere lagen en betekenissen. De wijsheid van Joanne en haar vader, het verbond met Emile die groeit tijdens de reis, maakten h"
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"Echt een heel mooi verhaal, af en toe wat langdradig en hier en daar kwamen er weleens teveel herhalingen en flash backs voor, daarom een minpuntje, maar toch nog vier vette sterren en de aanbeveling om dit boek te lezen of te luisteren (wat ik deed)"
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Al het blauw van de hemel:
"Een boek met een verhaal waar ik niet de juiste woorden voor kan vinden. Zo mooi, zo rakend en zo beeldend. Verdrietig maar bovenal ook heel liefdevol. De definitie van vrijheid, in keuzes die je in je eigen leven kunt maken.
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Jun 21, 2025 01:53AM
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Saskia Kalb
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The Nightingale Readers Group
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“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.”
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“I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
“After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.”
― Death by Black Hole
― Death by Black Hole
“Much of what we call personality is not a fixed set of traits, only coping mechanisms a person acquired in childhood.”
― When the Body Says No
― When the Body Says No
“All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.”
― A Man in Love
― A Man in Love
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