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Jakob’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jakob’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jakob Zaaiman
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Born
Etersheim, Netherlands
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July 2020
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https://www.goodreads.com/jayzaaiman
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| One of a kind, yes. Interesting & exciting study which heads into all kinds of confessional realms & which - even for a fan of the unusual - is likely to call up a range of movies you might not have seen. Not a problem, as they can be tracked down wi ...more | |
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| Perhaps the greatest novel so far about the total dissolution through technology of our familiar view of ourselves & how we might hack normal life; reality as the unreal. Reads like a hallucinatory thriller; unfilmable? Don't try. Amazing achievement ...more | |
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| Fleur Jaeggy: Proleterka (2001) My idea of fiction: short, sharp, to the point. Whilst also being unsettling, unusual, perplexing. Why spew 850pp when 100pp will be just as good & keep it tight? (Only pity is the English edition doesn't have a cover ...more | |
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| La paura del cielo (Fear of the Sky) (Italian a more compelling cover than ours!) short stories of strange souls entombed in icy worlds; beautifully written & like prose poetry not a word wasted; stunning. Perfect for one paragraph at a time. | |
