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Nov 25, 2007
Akiva ꙮ
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it was amazing
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Rereading, 6/22/2013. (Has it been 6 years? Wow.) There's a moment where Landsman tries to speak American without an accent, and it made me think of my grandfather's new york jewish cadence, and in that moment I remembered that he's gone and so is much of his world.
I think I like it even more on reread, though I'm not sure it'll upset Kavalier and Clay as my favorite Chabon book. My yiddish vocabulary has grown, if only a little---I really appreciated all the plays and metaphors on "faygele," da ...more
I think I like it even more on reread, though I'm not sure it'll upset Kavalier and Clay as my favorite Chabon book. My yiddish vocabulary has grown, if only a little---I really appreciated all the plays and metaphors on "faygele," da ...more
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