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Alta’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alta Ifland
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Eastern European folktales, Kafka, Calvino
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June 2009
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The Darkroom
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1977
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The Wife Who Wasn't
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Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace
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Elegy for a Fabulous World
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2009
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Death-in-a-Box
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2011
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The Snail's Song
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Speaking to No. 4
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Two Queens and a Chronicler
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A review of Introduction to Sally
My video review of "Introduction to Sally" by Elizabeth von Arnim (British Library Publishing, 2023) https://youtu.be/KW2Odlz9y3U
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Alta’s Recent Updates
What a great -- and fun! -- question. I don't know the answer, but here's what I found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_(sha...
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What a great -- and fun! -- question. I don't know the answer, but here's what I found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_(sha...
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Intalnire virtuala cu Autoarea: "Letopiset cu 2 Regine"/"Two Queens & a Chronicler"
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| Two Queens and a Chronicler is an atypical historical novel inspired by the lives of Romania’s queens, Elisabeta (1843-1916) and Marie (1875-1938)—Queen Victoria’s granddaughter. Written entirely as a dialogue between three women—the two queens and t ...more | |
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Such as astute question, but I think you've answered it yourself. In conversation the word would be "ta," as you point out. That's what I was thinking when I wrote that scene. However, you're right in the sense that this distinction isn't conveyed in
See Lisa’s answer.
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I'm sorry, but I didn't see your questions until just this morning. Yes, I'm working on a new novel write. I'm very close to completely the first draft, which is why I've been ignoring other responsibilities...like checking Goodreads.
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“There was a woman who, whatever she did,could not be...her eyes moistened in sympathy with the ocean of blue mist. And she tried once more to show that she was and opened her mouth to talk, but the words stopped in her throat, walled up. And out of her mouth grains of salt began flowing, piling up all around her body.”
― Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace
― Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace
“Her home. She thought of her body inside and outside this house, like an uncanny phantom moving in a dreamy space. Was it because her soul was somewhere else? No, she didn't have a soul. Then why this feeling of strangeness, as if all things were receding behind a veil of smoke, and this painful certainty that if she tried to touch them, they would disappear in a universe beyond her reach? She thought of the ridiculous game with words she practiced now and then, in a language that wasn't hers to save a body that wasn't hers. She tried to imagine she was real. And she sank even deeper into the spiral of nowhere.”
― Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace
― Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace
“The room, orphaned of silence, remains for a moment hanging in uncertainty, then its walls collapse with a noise of snow wounded at its core.”
― Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace
― Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace
“But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.”
― Kinder Than Solitude
― Kinder Than Solitude
“Sometimes an outsider can understand us in a way we do not understand ourselves.”
― Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao
― Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao
Q&A with Alta Ifland about The Wife Who Wasn't
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This will be a Q&A about my forthcoming novel, The Wife Who Wasn't (May 18). Please check out the info about the novel on my website, watch this book ...more
Goodreads România
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Salut, începe aici. Ai o carte pe care vrei s-o discuți cu alții? vezi ce cărți avem în bibliotecă și poți să îți găsești un partener de lectură. ...more
Abe Kobo Fan Club
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— last activity Dec 06, 2017 06:44AM
This group is for fans of Abe Kobo (or Kobo Abe, to use the English name order). The purpose of the group is to start discussions and share informatio ...more
Once Upon a Time
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— last activity May 23, 2012 08:55AM
For everyone who liked the 'Once Upon a Time' books. -Twists on Fairy Tales. ...more
Q&A with Alta Ifland
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— last activity Nov 04, 2010 02:35PM
Chat with the author about Elegy for a Fabulous World, a book of short stories inspired by the author's life in communist Romania. ...more
Classics and the Western Canon
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— last activity 4 hours, 58 min ago
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
Q&A with Alta Ifland
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— last activity Mar 05, 2011 09:40PM
...February 10, 2011 to February 22, 2011...
Japanese Literature
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A group for people who enjoy literature written by Japanese authors, the arts, culture, and history of Japan. Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan is th ...more
readers advisory for all
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life's too short to read crappy books. this is why readers' advisory exists. feel free to join if you are looking for "a book like____" or "a book tha ...more
Intalnire virtuala cu Autoarea: "Letopiset cu 2 Regine"/"Two Queens & a Chronicler"
— 9 members
— last activity 23 hours, 9 min ago
Membrii grupului pot pune întrebări autoarei despre romanul ei, Letopiseț cu doua regine (Two Queens and a Chronicler) publicat recent de Open Ends Pr ...more
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Thanks for the request! I admire your restraint in refusing to adhere to the asinine star-system of rating books. Looking forward to exchanges with you.
Great taste in books. Good to be friends Alta.
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Thank you so very much for the friend request. You have quite the impressive taste in literature, looking forward to discussing some books soon. Also, impressive collections of poetry!
Happy to be a friend. What an interesting bio you have!
Martin Dressler The Tale of an American Dreamer may have been the first book I read as a real adult, but I never stopped reading, so I think that it may have been the book that made me an adult, or at least ushered me towards adulthood. It's taken me seven or eight years to be able to even describe my feelings for it with any kind of accuracy, so I'm glad they resonated with you.
