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Dmitry’s 2024 Year in Books
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| This is a collection where every story is about a boundary — between people, between cultures, between life and what lies beyond it. Bowles writes about collision without morality or passion. His characters constantly step outside their familiar worl ...more | |
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| The story A Distant Episode, which gives its title to the collection, is one of the most brutal and piercing works by Bowles I read during my trip to Tangier. At first it looks like an ethnographic sketch: a linguistics professor arrives in a Morocca ...more | |
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| A book you fall straight into. Mantel’s use of the pronoun he (he, Cromwell) at first feels like a stylistic glitch, but soon proves to be a device that keeps the protagonist constantly present — sometimes in the shadows, sometimes directly before yo ...more | |
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| I read this novel while sitting in the teahouses of Tangier during my journey through Morocco. A strange feeling — to walk the very streets Bowles wrote about, to sit in cafés that have barely changed, to hear the same street noise. Voices, light, sm ...more | |
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| Dark Days is a heavy but necessary testimony. Valery Melnikov’s project, awarded First Prize at World Press Photo 2017 in the Long-Term Projects category, shows the war through the lives of ordinary people — hiding in basements, mourning their dead, ...more | |
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I’ve just finished the first part of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet — My Brilliant Friend. I was curious to see what kind of book holds the top spot on the New York Times list of the best fiction of the past 25 years. Ferrante’s feminism isn’t ab ...more |
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Carver writes briefly, explains almost nothing, but each story feels like a conversation overheard through a thin wall: you only catch what matters, and you fill in the rest yourself. These are stories about love falling apart in the kitchen. About me ...more |
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Furious Seasons and Other Stories shows Carver at the beginning — raw, a little lyrical, not yet pared down to the bone. These stories feel like he's still figuring out his voice. The writing is denser, darker, a bit more "literary" than what he'd lat ...more |
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| I thought this would be a book about running. Then I thought it was a writer’s diary. But in the end, it turned out to be both — and something else entirely. A quiet, essential manual on how to live when you're past fifty, when life moves forward ste ...more | |
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| For me, Raymond Carver is like a literary brother to Tom Waits and Jim Jarmusch. They feel like they come from the same bar, the same motel parking lot somewhere off the highway — one sings, the other films, and Carver just sits nearby, listening, qu ...more | |
“Our homeland in the language we spoke, thought, and wrote in, not the place where we were born. We live in the space of our language, and to expand it, it's not enough to just leave; we need to start thinking in other languages.”
― Clochard
― Clochard
“We are all connected by the finest of threads. We create worlds for each other through our existence. When someone close to you dies, it immediately affects everything around you; and everyone’s lives, whether they feel it or not, are changed forever.”
― Clochard
― Clochard
“Long ago, we had both realized that the only constructive conversation possible between us was sex. Neither of us could hear normal words. We each spoke our minds and listened only to ourselves. Only during sex did we share sensations and truly be present together. How long could that last? Probably forever. Would we have been happy for eternity? Why not? Sex wasn’t about interests or cultural differences; it was self-sufficient.”
― Clochard
― Clochard
“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really...How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
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Ola, Dmitry! Thank you for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta💙💛🌻
Best wishes from Majenta💙💛🌻"
Ola, Majenta! Thank you and Nice to meet you. :)