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Aš maištaujau, vadinasi, mes esame.

Mokausi lietuvių kalbos.

I'm scared here too but for actual spooky reasons

I'm scared but curious

Smells like a half the average rating book, says I.

Aš jau matau, kad čia knyga man.

Is this Jason Bourne?

The July War • Rabih Alameddine

Refugees are made where everyday life was lived.

"As if leaning over a precipice, I dive right in, seeking a different world where no one can find me and I can forget. I have a book on my bedside table. Because I dont have a gun".

This brick of a book can't hurt me 🥹 Surely 🥲

A romance book we deserved.

I also fall asleep while reading this to avoid getting bored

Night Women • Edwidge Danticat

Desperate protection of innocence.

The Flower Garden • Mieko Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Hitomi Yoshio

We all take root in our homes and to get torn from it is akin to losing sense of self.

Someone please suggest poetry that feels like this book. Might need to reread Vegetarian because I'm really enjoying Han Kang books.

Wanted to read something by a Swiss author while visiting Switzerland. So far pretty weird, but not weird-pit weird.

Translation: Žudobotas

Keyword: wistful tenderness

It really is evident how much sense of self Murderbot developed. Kinda already want to reread the first book for comparison.

One Minus One • Colm Tóibín

And no one is surprised that the Irish short story was (at least so far) the best.

I've had this book for a while and I'm so glad to be finally reading it. After reading The Vegetarian I both was both intrigued and aftraid to read more of Han Kang, but is so good.

"I'm fighting, alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact."

"I had to offer to do it [plant the spring seedlings] myself, even though I dislike doing work of this kind. This isn't out of laziness, but rather the feeling that my life entailed too many practical tasks, so that if I add even one more, the total balance would be tipped and I would have failed to live as I have always wished to".

Bandžiau skaityt lietuvišką vertimą, bet ten net miesto sporto salę iš korėjiečių neišvertė. Kaip lietuvių vertimuose gali egzistuoti noras vartoti terminus iš originalios kalbos, bet tuo pačiu juos kreivai sulietuvinti, aš nesuprantu.

Angliškas vertimas kol kas atrodo duoda sau daug laisvės ir neprisiriša grandinėmis prie originalo.