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	Beowulf by Unknown, Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson (Adapted by), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 348,561 ratings — published 1000 — 308 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 — 81,302 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 — 86,486 ratings — published 2019	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 — 71,019 ratings — published 2022 — 6 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 — 47,667 ratings — published 2018	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 — 31,133 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Neobyvatelná Země by David Wallace-Wells (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 29,928 ratings — published 2019 — 65 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 — 18,211 ratings — published 2022 — 34 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 — 14,976 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
	Věk kapitalismu dohledu: Boj o budoucnost lidstva na nové hranici moci by Shoshana Zuboff, Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 13,492 ratings — published 2018 — 59 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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A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake

by S. Foster Damon

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The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories

by Virginia Woolf

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Learned by Heart

by Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)

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„...presvedčenie vie byť nebezpečné, pridŕžame sa ho, aby sme mohli odmietať a pohŕdať...“ (s. 139) asi nejkrásnější knížka, kterou jsem letos četla – obsahem, stylem, provedením. když napíšu, že je to příběh o lásce a protivenstvích, vyzní to klišoid ...more
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konečně po čase román mladého autora bez nálepky „autofikce“ nebo rádoby „podivna“. příběh nedůvěryhodné vypravěčky, sonda do zdravotnictví (ocení psychosomatici) a tak trochu detektivka.
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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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