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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

by Svetlana Alexievich

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The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

by Anthony Trollope

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Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem

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worked in science fiction in part because the Communist censors took genre work less seriously.

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It's funny, I read this as a teenager, aka=a very long time ago, but I still remember it, I really enjoyed it then. Maybe I should re-read this now with a different perspective.

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Jim

This is my first time reading any of his work but I enjoyed the film Solaris based on his novel.

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“Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not just for ourselves but in the name of every generation after us.”
― Ali Smith, Public Library and Other Stories

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“it was so quiet. Reckon I’d have heard an ant shit.”
― S.W. Kane, The Bone Jar

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“To write is, moreover, to withdraw language from the world, to detach it from what makes it a power according to which, when I speak, it is the world that declares itself, the clear light of day that develops through tasks undertaken, through action and time.”
― Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace littéraire"

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