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I was expecting to read a book about a pediatrician’s course of life from the beginning of his residency training until the days that he was a experienced specialist and the ups and downs of this way, but until now all I’ve read is bragging about how good the old days were and nagging about how everything’s ruined nowadays.

I was expecting to read a book about a pediatrician’s course of life from the beginning of his residency training until the days that he was a experienced specialist and the ups and downs of this way, but until now all I’ve read is bragging about how good the old days were and nagging about how everything’s ruined nowadays.

با وجود حجم کم و فصل‌های کوتاه و نثر روانی که داره، خوندنش -از نظر روانی- سبک و آسون نیست و گاهی آدم نیاز داره سرشو بیاره بیرون چند تا نفس عمیق بکشه و شاید چند روز طول بکشه تا برگردی سراغش

Every time, it surprises me how deeply Murakami can convey human emotions on paper.

هر چی داستان جلوتر می‌ره آدم از توانایی این نویسنده شگفت‌زده‌تر می‌شه. اون‌جاش که با مهارت باورناپذیری دو تا خط داستانی که کاملاً به نظر میاد از هم جدان رو به هم پیوند می‌زنه خارق‌العاده‌س. ایضاً اتفاقات بعدش.

Started the book over a month ago in the middle of reading other books, because my mom was reading it :)) but it was too good to be read in between other reads. Gonna start over now

Having just finished Rena's Promise After Reading Tattooist of Auschwitz and watching Schindler's List, I think I need a break from this atmosphere. Also as a German book it is a rather hard read for me. Going to postpone reading it for a while.

داستان جذاب و پر کششی که بعضی وقتا زمین گذاشتنش سخته. پر از توصیف و تصویر.

‏«حقیقت پیروز است. واقعاً اینگونه است؟ حقیقت به تنهایی پیروز نمی‌شود. وقتی با قدرت درمی‌افتد، اغلب بازنده است. حقیقت وقتی پیروز می‌شود که مردم برای دفاع از آن چنانکه باید قوی باشند.»

Full of disturbing heart clenching scenes. My mind prefers to think it’s just a story... but unfortunately it’s a real story.

“The situation would get so grim that the unimaginable would happen: people would come to long for the days of Qaddafi”

Excerpt From
The Return
Hisham Matar

نمی‌دونم چرا اونقدری که انتظار دارم نمی‌گیردم
حالا در مورد خوندن‏
Anatomy of a disappearance و In the country of men
یه مقداری دو دل شدم

Started listening in Audible and now I partly read and partly listen (Mostly I start the chapter listening before sleeping and while driving and then finish it up reading myself). This not always an easy thing to do with every book, but this one is surprisingly easy to follow and remember. A very well written light read and a good choice to get back on track of reading.

“LOOK, UNLESS YOU’RE WRITING ONE, A SELF-HELP book is an oxymoron. You read a self-help book so someone who isn’t yourself can help you, that someone being the author. This is true of the whole self-help genre. It’s true of how-to books, for example. And it’s true of personal improvement books too. Some might even say it’s true of religion books. But some others might say...”

You know you haven’t been wrong about putting an author in you favourites list with having only read one of his books, when you want to write the begging of his next book you start in gold and hang it on the wall :D

And so the book is mainly a series of letters between these two characters. But just about when I started wondering if I’m going to read letters till the end of the book, excerpts of Varvara’s childhood journal started showing up and so now I’m getting more insight into her character and life.

Starts with a letter Makar Devushkin has written to Varvara Alexievna.From the letter we understand Mr. Devushkin is madly in love with Varvara, but they do not meet. He lives across the street from her house and watches her through the window. This is where I started to wonder if he is more of a stalker; but then we read Varvara’s reply to his letter and understand that they have a very sincere relationship.

دیگه کاملاً ناامید شدم

خب کم‌کم دارم شک‌ می‌کنم که ربط خاصی قراره پیدا کنن این ساکنین به هم یا نه

دارم به کتاب‌صوتیش گوش می‌دم و اصلاً دلیل انتخابم گوینده‌ش-رضا عمرانی- بود.
بعداً دیدم که امتیازهای چندان جالبی نگرفته
اما فعلاً از سبک روایتش خوشم اومده. فعلاً داره صحنه‌هایی از زندگی ساکنین مختلف یک مجتمع مسکونی رو نشونمون میده. منتظرم کم‌کم ببینم چه‌جوری به هم ربط پیدا می‌کنن.