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Top 17 of 2017

On December 26, 2017December 26, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts5 Comments

I hope you all had wonderful Christmas, that you managed to find time to relax, breathe and think, but also to be, fully consciously be, with your family and with yourselves. I have a feeling I'm late to the party on this one, or at least cutting it very fine, but here's my list of …

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May round-up

On June 1, 2017October 14, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts2 Comments

May is gone, no idea how that happened, because my mind still firmly believes we're somewhere in March. It got warmer and it got sunnier and I appreciate it, but my brain is clearly in denial, maybe because I really do feel I should start exercising again and cannot use short days as an excuse …

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House of Day, House of Night – Olga Tokarczuk

On May 20, 2017May 13, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews7 Comments

It has been years since I read any book by Olga Tokarczuk, I remember in my early twenties I liked the slow dreamy rhythm of her prose, but somehow the older I got the less drawn to it I was. It didn't seem to sit right with the pace of my life, as if it …

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