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I forgot to mention that I read the Romanian translation. I don't think you will perceive the book really long, it's more of a page-turner. Speaking of tastes, mine are pretty questionable, I don't even like chocolate.

The plot is faithful to the original, the similarity of the names of the characters, she did a good job of transporting them to the Appalachian mountains but that just didn't work for me, I knew what was going to happen to them and I ended up getting bored. Having as a reference a classic story...

I didn't like the book even though I have enough arguments that it is well documented, quite well written. In my opinion Kingsolver failed to tell the story in the first person so that the narrator's voice is believable. At the beginning of the book I thought it was strong enough, but gradually...

Last December I read The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Zimmer. After Zimmer's death, Joseph Campbell structured this book based on notes with the author's commentaries on several ancient stories, one of these stories is that of Sir Gawain. I enjoyed reading the book but it was quite...

🇫🇷 Alain Fournier- The Lost Estate 🇺🇸 Theodore Roethke- Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

One of my favorite paintings is Untitled created in 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat. 4 years ago a friend talked to a painter who made this little painting that I still have above my desk.

Thank you so much for the wonderful opportunity to see and hear from all of you. Next time I will be more coherent, I hope…?

I recently finished reading The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili and looked over the Fiction from Georgia anthology mentioned here by @Liam which has a short story Once Upon a Time in Georgia by Aka Morchiladze. I haven't gotten to it yet.

I thought the same thing, as if their mere presence disturbed them. After I thought about 11 year olds transitioning to adults, I hope it wasn't as scary as I imagined being around those adults.

Count me in… both days are ok for me.

Public reading in my city (within an institution) begins in the Popular Library organized in the University Library building. The Popular library, intended for the general public, was inaugurated on May 14, 1921. It had a hall with 70 seats and a warehouse, which held 1500 volumes in Romanian...

If it's Saturday, the time doesn't matter to me. I'm quite nocturnal, the only times I feel miserable are between 5-8 a.m., (every day when I go to work ?) but I’ll manage even then.

Of course, I'll let you know after I read it.

I only have Avalon, which I haven't read yet, he has about 10 books published here, most of them by Polirom. Avalon was recommended to me by a friend, I only know that it is an autobiographical novel, most of his books have positive reviews.

There’s nothing to apologize for, I rely on autocorrect when I write here. ☺️ Thank you for the name.

I think autocorrect exaggerated here.

Cu drag. I know it's a terrible thing what I'm writing, but we discover authors like Zaharia Stancu, instead Eminescu falls into the category of those we had to learn and we started early. I'm not going to go into too much detail about how most of the kids in my generation learned Eminescu, but...

The 11 volumes with a total of 12672 pages of the Complete Works of Eminescu were published by the National publishing house, a new edition appeared last year, originally printed in 2011. In 1972, at the initiative of Alexandru Oprea, director of the Museum of Romanian Literature, the research...

I'm curious if it's the translation made by Adrian Sahlean or Ioana Lupusoru, I haven't looked through them, I only note that they were thin. I don't have books from these publishers, from what I noticed now both published in 2021.

From what I read in the essays in this book, Nádas investigates the moral nature of the world we live in and asks himself questions, refusing to be guided by certainties. Constantly staying on the border between experience and imagination, between reality and fiction. I haven't read any book...