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“At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“His connection to his life was that of a sculptor to his statue or a novelist to his novel. It is an inviolable right of a novelist to rework his novel. If the opening does not please him, he can rewrite or delete it. But Zdena's existence denied Mirek that author's prerogative. Zdena insisted on remaining on the opening pages of the novel and did not let herself be crossed out.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Jon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
960 books
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140 friends
5 books
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31 friends
131 books
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39 friends
202 books
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89 friends
57 books
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73 friends
665 books
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138 friends
1 book
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148 friends
2 books
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163 friends
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