Status Updates From Landscape Painted with Tea

"[H]is smile healed quickly, like a wound on the water."

You know how sometimes you just immediately trust a book?

Yeah. That. *luxuriates*

"To više nije bio onaj dečak brz da nazebe i spor da se pokrije. Tada sam ga se prvi put uplašila.
A rekla sam:
– Kad god porazgovaram s vama, dete moje, osetim posle potrebu da se dobro umijem."

Right now I am thinking about starting a different book. I am reading it and delighted in the language, phrasing and descriptions but it is so hard for me to connect them all to the story which I feel is there but I can’t seem to follow it. I only read a few pages every night (10-20) and so I appear to be struggling.

This crossword is hecking difficult though

Omg a crossword puzzle

This is so bizarre

Od 281

Od 281

Od 281

Od 281

Od 281

"Od 281"

Od 281

Tek sutra idem u biblioteku, ali toliko jedva čekam da počnem da je čitam, osećam se skoro kao da je sada imam pred sobom.

Another breathtaking journey has begun...

- Kao što vidiš - rekla mu je potom uzdišući vazduh kroz kosu - nije ti potreban jezik da bi se mogao sporazumeti. Dovoljan je kurvarluk.

<3

Миналото се състои от мигове, в които времето е спряло, а бъдещето - от мигове, в които времето ще спре.

Литературните критици са като студентите по медицина: все си мислят, че писателят боледува точно от болестта, която изучават в момента. А писателят винаги боледува от една и съща болест, от болестта да кръстосва думите. От един език в устата си да направи два. Какво всъщност представлява една книга, ако не сборник с успешно кръстосани слова, с кръстословици? Впрочем има и читатели, които боледуват от същата любов.

Винаги съществуват две "сега" и настоящето не е толкова единно и неделимо, за каквото обикновено го мислим.

Finally the solution on how to solve the crossword and I am more confused as to how to solve it than ever.

I am unsure of this part. It is either brilliant or desperate.

I have completed the first part of the novel and am now moving on to the crossword section. I was afraid when I started reading this novel that the crossword part might be a bit gimmicky or somehow trying to play up to people who wanted a repeat of Pavic's first novel.
Now that I have reached this part I can say that I am very hopeful and that all of my fears of gimmicks or trickery are gone.

I have completed the first part of the novel and am now moving on to the crossword section. I was afraid when I started reading this novel that the crossword part might be a bit gimmicky or somehow trying to play up to people who wanted a repeat of Pavic's first novel.
Now that I have reached this part I can say that I am very hopeful and that all of my fears of gimmicks or trickery are gone.

This book is just getting better and better.

This book is getting better and better. I find myself setting it down to ponder what I just read. I was interested by the unconventional crossword part of the novel but I am still 10 pages away from the start of that and already I am in love with the story.

I have been waiting for a month for this to arrive in the post and when it did today I was giddy as a schoolgirl.
It is like I have a new best friend and I am carrying it with me from room to room.
So far it is great but slow going. I wonder if it will live up to the hype in my mind.

«Tous les actes sexuels dans l'univers entretiennent entre eux quelque rapport, une interaction secrète.»

«[S]ur le plan de la ville où il traçait sa carte du Tendre, apparut peu à peu quelque chose comme une lettre ou un chiffre (...). Comme si des messages secrets qu'y avait laissés sa semence on pouvait extraire le dénominateur commun de toutes ses qualités essentielles.»

Pavić a-t-il lu Gravity's Rainbow?

So we've decided magnetic poetry is the way to go for that last bit. No spoilers, please.

I had lost this book to a packed up beach chair. Now that it's beach season, I've found it. I'm amazed how every paragraph can stand by itself. It's so poetic. It is not, however, a quick and easy read for me. It's like caviar. It's exciting for a quick taste but you can't make a meal of it. Like caviar, I'm sampling the book a few pages at a time.

Yeah, I've been trying to read this book since like 2006. It's like reading a poem and I love it, but there's never a compelling reason for me to keep reading, unlike Dictionary of the Khazars.