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Yanko’s 2024 Year in Books
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Yanko Tsvetkov
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The Olive Child
In a gluttonous fit, a pregnant woman strips an olive tree off of its fruit. The tree retaliates.
One of my shortest stories, The Olive Child was first published in November 2021, exclusively for my Patreon subscribers. In August 2022...
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Sunny's review
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The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World:
"A shorter version of a much larger compendium of knowledge compiled by an Arab dude who clearly ad a lot of time on his hands. Shihab was born in the 13th century and basically pulled a lot of information to get on some of the most disparate things y"
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The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World:
"First, thanks to Elias Muhanna for convincing a trade press to publish this. It's great fun: selections from a fourteenth century Egyptian 'encyclopaedia.' There are great stories, weird facts, and our translator/edtior does some good imitations of r"
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The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World:
"A fascinating introduction to the scholarship of medieval Islamic culture. More similar to the Elder Pliny than Encyclopedia Brittanica, but that’s part of the fun. The original material was much longer but the translator gives what seems to be an ex"
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“It is better to waste one’s gold than to waste one’s time, for gold can be acquired from a mine, sold, gifted, or stored in a bank. Time has no master and no shape. No rock can contain it, and nobody can own it. Time is the breath of the Goddess, the rhythm of her chest, the pulse of her beating heart.”
― Sex, Drugs and Tales of Wonder
― Sex, Drugs and Tales of Wonder
“On her fifteenth anniversary, she lined up her thirty six dolls and beheaded them with a single swing, proudly announcing the end of her childhood.”
― Codex Hyperboreanus
― Codex Hyperboreanus
“Truth is like medicine—too little will keep you sick, too much will kill you.”
― Codex Hyperboreanus
― Codex Hyperboreanus
“Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like (Ernest Hemingway). (John Steinbeck) is important due to American guns. Had (John Dos Passos) and (William Faulkner) been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who`d read them?”
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“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― The Last of the Mohicans
― The Last of the Mohicans
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