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Like with all Knausgaards I think this book is at its best when Karl Ove is wondering how much people think about his bathroom habits

Oké, ik zit al te lang gevangen in dit boek. #freesuus #leeseensdoor

Toxic couple od samog starta🙂‍↔️🫩😫

Ik zweer je, als deze man zijn to-do list zou uitgeven zou ik het nog lezen. Zo fascinerend hoe hij zulke alledaagse bezigheden zo weet te beschrijven dat het interessant is en je helemaal opneemt

My god, digression really is secular revelation

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The first volume is still one of the best documentary style non-fiction books I’ve read. I knew that this second volume focuses on the birth of his children and raising them. So far so good.

Ja ja ja, ik wil meer. Vooral met de Toscaanse zon op m’n porem en een paar glaasjes bubbelachtige rosé in m’n mik.

Begonnen aan nummer 2 van de reeks. Heerlijk zo een boek zonder ‘plot’.

Selvopptatt og forvirret kronologi, men interresante essays

En ting skal Knausgård ha, han får deg til å bli litt forelsket i hverdagen

Deler av dette er veldig behagelig å lese, andre deler er helt uinteressant men uansett syntes jeg Knausgård er en idiot

Min kamp med at færdiggøre den her

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Osećam se kao da tajno kročim u svakodnevnicu Knausgora i pronalazim sebe u raznim segmentima njegovog života. Plašim se da nastavim. 😁

HE KISSED HER AND IMMEDIATELY FAINTED

IM LEARNING WHAT A MAN FEELS WHEN HE FALLS IN LOVE

“But I don't want to be someone who might do, that's not good enough for me, it has to be all or nothing, you have to be ablaze, the way I am ablaze. To want the way I want. Do you understand? Oh, I know you do. I have seen how strong you can be”

After we parted company and I was trudging up the hills to my bedsit in Mariaberget I realised two things.

The first was that I wanted to see her again as soon as possible.

The second was that was where I had to go, to what I had seen that evening. Nothing else was good enough, nothing else did it. That was where I had to go, to the essence, to the inner core of human existence. If it took forty years, so be it

Taking his baby daughter to a kids play workshop at the library: "I wasn't embarrassed. I was humiliated and degraded." HAHAHAHA because he has a "19th century man inside" him HAHAHAHA he had to sing along with the mums and babies, while thinking he wanted to sleep with the hot instructor

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Life is not a mathematical quantity, it has no theory, only practice

OMG, the letter to Linda - the most romantic words ever said by a man 🫠🫠

No one is spared here. I feel like a voyeur looking through the peephole.

Fascinating, but I’d expect nothing less here.

Karl Ove’s disdain for crunchy nursery parents is my favourite thing.

Karl ove you psycho I love you

in a really different place to where i was starting this series/book. it’s been rough lately, but returning to this book is a sort of sanctuary. knausgaard reminds me i’m not alone and the universality of his own one of a kind journey is beautiful and profound. it’s like drinking a guinness alone at a table in your favorite dive bar and realizing everything will work itself out eventually

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