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	Beowulf by Unknown ., Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson (Adapted by), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 349,610 ratings — published 1000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Levá strana světa by Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 81,557 ratings — published 2011 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Najdi mě (Dej mi své jméno, #2) by André Aciman (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 87,105 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jak vysoko klesneme by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 71,880 ratings — published 2022 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poslední věta by Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 47,956 ratings — published 2018 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hřejivé ruce duchů by Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 32,039 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neobyvatelná Země by David Wallace-Wells (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 30,069 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Město špíny by Hayley Scrivenor (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 18,402 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kaliban a čarodějnice by Silvia Federici, Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.56 avg rating — 14,316 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard Ramirez: Night Stalker by Philip Carlo, Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 15,033 ratings — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Spring: The Story of a Season

by Michael Morpurgo

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Mar 23, 2026 02:17AM

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A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake

by S. Foster Damon

bookshelves: non-fiction, poetry, currently-reading, uk

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The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories

by Virginia Woolf

bookshelves: currently-reading, uk, women

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básně místy roztomilé, jindy už trochu „creepy“. nejlepší text – arbesovské romaneto Zlověstná madona, které skvěle spojuje skutečné historické reálie s historkou o reálně neexistujícím obrazu.
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Sylva rated a book it was ok Do vnitrozemí by Vladimíra Valová	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
srovnání autorky s Balabánem nechápu – společnou mají snad jedině schopnost vidět bezútěšnost všude kolem. tyhle povídky sice odsýpají (v umně sestavených, i když někdy už kdesi čtených větách), ale většinou jsou dost úmorné. „už tenkrát byla její du ...more
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“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness

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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

tags: books, obsession

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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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