en-US Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:18:22 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 228448574 It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences. That we wouldn't be here at all if it weren't for these curious twists of fate.

Tara Selter has slipped out of time.

Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday.

She comes to know the shape of the day like the back of her hand—the grey morning light in her Paris hotel; the moment a blackbird breaks into song; her husband's surprise at seeing her return home unannounced. But for everyone around her, this day is lived for the first and only time. They do not remember the other 18ths of November, and they do not believe her when she tries to explain.

As Tara approaches her 365th 18th of November, she can't shake the feeling that somewhere underneath the surface of this day, there's a way to escape.]]> Solvej Balle Kamil 4 audiobook 4.33 2020
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name: Kamil
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]]> 230591183 188 Marcin Wicha 8397184988 Kamil 4 4.67 2025
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Jednak poza zasięgiem wzroku znajomych i followersów rośnie niezadowolenie. Codzienność, skodyfikowana przez lifestyle'owe magazyny, powielana w nieskończoność na facebookowych i instagramowych feedach, zaczyna przytłaczać. Praca nudzi i frustruje, grupa przyjaciół się rozpada, zaangażowanie polityczne zaczyna się i kończy w internecie. Bohaterowie, uwięzieni we własnych wyobrażeniach o życiowej perfekcji, chcą znaleźć coś prawdziwszego. Ale czy coś takiego w ogóle jeszcze istnieje?

Książka Vincenza Latronica to gorzka proza o marzeniach i rozczarowaniach pokolenia współczesnych trzydziestolatków. Przypowieść o autentyczności, którą coraz trudniej odnaleźć.]]> 128 Vincenzo Latronico 8383960972 Kamil 0 to-read 0.0 2022
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]]> 7592650 Rzeczach młodych ludzi psychicznie bardzo podobnych do bohaterów Witaj, smutku, lecz nie posiadających przywileju zamożności. ich problem polega na tym, by mieć wszystko i zaraz, ale bez wysiłku i wyrzeczeń. Są przeciwieństwem amerykańskiego ideału pucybuta, który własną praca i przedsiębiorczością dochodzi do fortuny. Bohaterowie Pereca zaczynają niejako od końca - uczą się, jak żyć w luksusie, jak się ubierać i urządzać mieszkanie, jak spędzać czas, tylko wciąż nie wiedzą, za co. Żyją więc marzeniami o bogactwie, które miałby im zesłać szczęśliwy traf... Rozgłos, jaki w latach sześćdziesiątych zyskała ta mała debiutancka książeczka Pereca... świadczy, jak trafna była zawarta w niej krytyka społeczeństwa konsumpcyjnego, w którym kult "rzeczy" zastąpił wartości autentyczne.

(from the cover)]]> 144 Georges Perec 8305110729 Kamil 0 to-read 3.99 1965
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Powrót do Uluru przywraca życie sprawie, która zatarła się w pamięci. To wspaniale napisana, poruszająca książka z wieloma zdumiewającymi i nieoczekiwanymi zwrotami akcji. Mark McKenna opowiada o zrozumieniu i powrocie, a w sercu tego wszystkiego leży Uluru, święte miejsce, w którym zgubnie zbiegły się [różne] ścieżki.]]> 280 Mark McKenna 8396340293 Kamil 3 3.72 2021
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]]> 152505241 Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 11 Kaveh Akbar 0593824563 Kamil 4 2025, audiobook 4.11 2024
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]]> 208511276 Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers.

The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth.

Book II of Solvej Balle’s astounding seven-part series On the Calculation of Volume beautifully expands on the speculative premise of Book I, drawing us further into the maze of time, where space yawns open, as if suddenly gaining a new dimension, extending into ever more fined-grained textures. Within this new reality, our senses and the tactility of things grows heightened: sounds, smells, sights, objects come suddenly alive, as if the world had begun whispering to us in a new language.

And yet as the world announces itself anew, Tara’s own sense of self is eroding, making her wonder just which bits of her are really left intact? “It is the Tara Selter with hopes and dreams who has fallen out of the picture, been thrown off the world, run over the edge, been poured out, carried off down the stream of eighteenths of November, lost, evaporated, swept out to sea.�� She begins to think of herself as a relic of the past, as something or someone leftover, similar to the little Roman coin she carries around in her pocket, without a purpose or a place.

Desperate to recover a sense of herself within time, Tara decides to head north by train in search of winter, but soon she turns south in pursuit of spring, as she tries to grasp on to durational time through seasonal variations. Amazingly, On the Calculation of Volume Book II is all movement and motion―taking us through the European countries of the North and the South, through seasons, and languages―a beautiful travelogue that is also a love letter to our vanishing world. To be continued.]]> 176 Solvej Balle 0811237273 Kamil 0 to-read 4.16 2020
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As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, spends her days gathering footage from the neighborhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,�� chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you're filming a park.�� Life back in Asya and Manu's respective home countries continues-parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up-all just slightly beyond their reach. But the world they're making in their new city is growing, too, they hope, into something that will be distinctly theirs. As they open up the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?

Hailed by Lauren Groff and Marina Abramovic, Savas's fine, precise craft turns The Anthropologist's simple apartment search into a soulful, often funny, examination of modern coupledom, home-building, and expat life in the universal modern city.]]> 192 Aysegül Savas 163973306X Kamil 4 2025, owned-books, owned-read 3.88 2024
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> 26853635 160 Robert Seethaler 1447283902 Kamil 4 owned-read, owned-books, 2016 3.99 2014
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]]> 219734150 Przełomowa biografia Róży Luksemburg �� po Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie najbardziej znanej na świecie Polki, ikony pacyfizmu, internacjonalizmu i demokratycznego socjalizmu.

Róża Luksemburg jest po Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie najbardziej znaną na świecie Polką. Ikoną pacyfizmu, internacjonalizmu i demokratycznego socjalizmu. W Polsce niemal każdy kojarzy jej nazwisko, ale niewielu wie, kim była naprawdę.

Ostatnie lata XIX wieku. Po studiach w Zurychu Róża przeprowadza się do Berlina, gdzie bije serce ówczesnej socjaldemokracji. Jest młodą kobietą, Żydówką i osobą z niepełnosprawnością. Ale już kilka lat później stanie się jedną z głównych postaci największej na świecie partii socjalistycznej. Wszechstronnie wykształcona i uzdolniona retorycznie, nie obawia się krytykować tych, którzy wygodnie rozparli się w fotelach działaczy partyjnych i związkowych i nie dążą do rewolucyjnej zmiany.

Z burzliwej biografii Róży wyłania się portret osoby "myślącej w poprzek", która nie pasowała ani do tradycyjnej żydowskiej rodziny, ani do ról społecznych wyznaczanych kobietom, ani do sztywnych ram ideologii. Która przekraczała wszelkie bariery w dążeniu do emancypacji i walczyła o zniesienie tych barier dla innych. Cała jej działalność wynikała z głęboko zakorzenionego poczucia sprawiedliwości, z wyczulenia na wszelkie formy opresji, dyskryminacji, wyzysku, na cudze cierpienie �� nie tylko ludzkie, ale i zwierzęce.

W życiu Róży jest wszystko, czego można oczekiwać od porywającej opowieści: szlachetne pobudki i czarne charaktery, konflikt i wspólna sprawa, wielka historia, miłość i śmierć �� i tajemnica.]]> 592 Weronika Kostyrko 8368226716 Kamil 5 4.39 2024
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Mężatka na nowo odkrywająca swoją kobiecość. Seniorka rodu przeżywająca drugą młodość. Rowerzystka mierząca się z własnymi lękami w starciu z agresywnym psem. Wreszcie Elizabeth Costello �� ulubiona postać pisarza �� w obliczu śmierci. W snutych przez Coetzeego historiach każda z tych bohaterek staje się przewodniczką po świecie uczuć, gdzie strach i nienawiść splatają się z miłością, pożądaniem i potrzebą wolności.

Przemierzając wąskie uliczki Nicei, zaglądając za mury hiszpańskich i prowansalskich domów, badamy granice moralności, pragnień i tożsamości �� tematy od lat obecne w twórczości jednego z najważniejszych na świecie żyjących pisarzy.

I odkrywamy, że każdy człowiek nosi w sobie tajemnicę, której nie potrafi w pełni pojąć.

W "Nadziei" Coetzee patrzy na świat oczami kobiet, ukazując najgłębsze ludzkie tęsknoty. Bez patosu, lecz czułością, która zachwyci każdego wrażliwego czytelnika.]]> 176 J.M. Coetzee 8383671873 Kamil 5 2025, owned-books, owned-read 4.17
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]]> 52009042 A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees.
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Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today’s trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past thirty years. Across the world, the rich have prospered while workers can no longer afford to buy what they produce, have lost their jobs, or have been forced into higher levels of debt. In this thought-provoking challenge to mainstream views, the authors provide a cohesive narrative that shows how the class wars of rising inequality are a threat to the global economy and international peace—and what we can do about it.]]> 288 Matthew C. Klein 0300244177 Kamil 4 4.14 2020
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First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes--heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies--into a sensitive portrait of one young woman's quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader's own role. Ari Larissa Heinrich's translation brings Chi's hybrid punk sensibility to all readers interested in books that test the limits of where speculative fiction can go.]]> 168 Chi Ta-wei 0231195710 Kamil 1 2025, owned-books, owned-read 4.00 1995
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I’d say this might serve as a topic of discussion in queer or SF studies, as it presents some interesting ideas. However, as a work of literature—an art form—it fails miserably.
]]> 46031975 256 Hideo Yamamoto 8496427153 Kamil 4 3.90 2003
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My first book (ok not really a book) in Spanish.
]]> 144405196
Wired called Dr. Fei-Fei Li “one of a tiny group of scientists―a group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen table―who are responsible for AI’s recent remarkable advances.��

Known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence, Dr. Li has spent more than two decades at the forefront of the field. But her career in science was improbable from the start. As immigrants, her family faced a difficult transition from China’s middle class to American poverty. And their lives were made all the harder as they struggled to care for her ailing mother, who was working tirelessly to help them all gain a foothold in their new land.

Fei-Fei’s adolescent knack for physics endured, however, and positioned her to make a crucial contribution to the breakthrough we now call AI, placing her at the center of a global transformation. Over the last decades, her work has brought her face-to-face with the extraordinary possibilities―and the extraordinary dangers―of the technology she loves.

The Worlds I See is a story of science in the first person, documenting one of the century’s defining moments from the inside. It provides a riveting story of a scientist at work and a thrillingly clear explanation of what artificial intelligence actually is―and how it came to be. Emotionally raw and intellectually uncompromising, this book is a testament not only to the passion required for even the most technical scholarship but also to the curiosity forever at its heart.]]> 336 Fei-Fei Li Kamil 4 4.31 2023
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New York Times reporter and “Corner Office�� columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs.

In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized for growing GE into the most valuable company in the world. But Welch’s achievements didn’t stem from some greater intelligence or business prowess. Rather, they were the result of a sustained effort to push GE’s stock price ever higher, often at the expense of workers, consumers, and innovation. In this captivating, revelatory book, David Gelles argues that Welch single-handedly ushered in a new, cutthroat era of American capitalism that continues to this day.

Gelles chronicles Welch’s campaign to vaporize hundreds of thousands of jobs in a bid to boost profits, eviscerating the country’s manufacturing base and destabilizing the middle class. Welch’s obsession with downsizing—he eliminated 10% of employees every year—fundamentally altered GE and inspired generations of imitators who have employed his strategies at other companies around the globe. In his day, Welch was corporate America’s leading proponent of mergers and acquisitions, using deals to gobble up competitors and giving rise to an economy that is more concentrated and less dynamic. And Welch pioneered the dark arts of “financialization,�� transforming GE from an admired industrial manufacturer into what was effectively an unregulated bank. The finance business was hugely profitable in the short term and helped Welch keep GE’s stock price ticking up. But ultimately, financialization undermined GE and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies.

Gelles shows how Welch’s celebrated emphasis on increasing shareholder value by any means necessary (layoffs, outsourcing, offshoring, acquisitions, and buybacks, to name but a few tactics) became the norm in American business generally. He demonstrates how that approach has led to the greatest socioeconomic inequality since the Great Depression and harmed many of the very companies that have embraced it. And he shows how a generation of Welch acolytes radically transformed companies like Boeing, Home Depot, Kraft Heinz, and more. Finally, Gelles chronicles the change that is now afoot in corporate America, highlighting companies and leaders who have abandoned Welchism and are proving that it is still possible to excel in the business world without destroying livelihoods, gutting communities, and spurning regulation.]]> 272 David Gelles 198217644X Kamil 0 to-read 3.98
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]]> 195917358
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023

Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty’s introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside: stifled creativity.

Yasheng Huang shows how China transitioned from dynamism to extreme stagnation after the Keju was instituted. China’s most prosperous periods, such as during the Tang dynasty (618��907) and under the reformist CCP, occurred when its emphasis on scale (the size of bureaucracy) was balanced with scope (diversity of ideas).

Considering China’s remarkable success over the past half-century, Huang sees signs of danger in the political and economic reversals under Xi Jinping. The CCP has again vaulted conformity above new ideas, reverting to the Keju model that eventually led to technological decline. It is a lesson from China’s own history, Huang argues, that Chinese leaders would be wise to take seriously. The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023

Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty’s introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside: stifled creativity.

Yasheng Huang shows how China transitioned from dynamism to extreme stagnation after the Keju was instituted. China’s most prosperous periods, such as during the Tang dynasty (618��907) and under the reformist CCP, occurred when its emphasis on scale (the size of bureaucracy) was balanced with scope (diversity of ideas).

Considering China’s remarkable success over the past half-century, Huang sees signs of danger in the political and economic reversals under Xi Jinping. The CCP has again vaulted conformity above new ideas, reverting to the Keju model that eventually led to technological decline. It is a lesson from China’s own history, Huang argues, that Chinese leaders would be wise to take seriously.]]> 411 Yasheng Huang 0300274912 Kamil 0 to-read 4.25 2023
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]]> 12121296 352 James Barr 1847374530 Kamil 0 to-read 4.06 2011
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Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change. These tensions have sparked a worldwide reckoning over the sourcing of these critical minerals, and no one understands the complexities of these issues better than Ernest Scheyder, whose exclusive access has allowed him to report from the front lines on the key players in this global battle to power our future.

This is not a story of tree-hugging activists, but rather of industry titans, scientists, and policymakers jostling over how best to save the planet. Scheyder explores how a proposed lithium mine in Nevada would help global automakers slash their dependance on fossil fuels, but developing that mine could cause the extinction of a flower found nowhere else on the planet. A hedge fund manager’s attempt to resuscitate rare earths mining in California relies on Chinese expertise, exposing the paradox in Washington’s quest for minerals independence. The fight to end child labor in Africa’s mining sector is a key reason, supporters contend, to dig out a vast reserve of cobalt and nickel under Minnesota’s vulnerable wetlands. An international mining conglomerate’s plan to extract copper for electric vehicles deep beneath Arizona’s desert would destroy a Native American holy site, fueling tough questions about what matters more.

In The War Below , Scheyder crafts a business story that matters to everyone. If China continues to dominate production of these critical minerals, it will have a profound impact on the geopolitical order. Beyond China, countries such as Bolivia, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo aim to wield their vast reserves of key minerals. There are no easy answers when it comes to energy. Scheyder paints a powerfully honest and nuanced picture of what is needed to fight climate change and secure energy independence, revealing how America and the rest of the world’s hunt for the “new oil�� directly affects us all.]]> 384 Ernest Scheyder 1668011808 Kamil 0 to-read 3.92 2024
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You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything�� from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market �� runs on chips. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge is��slipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea,��Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil,��is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.

Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand.��America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.]]> 464 Chris Miller 1982172002 Kamil 0 to-read 4.38 2022
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]]> 75615837 Nominacja do Nagrody Bookera!
Nowa, rozdzierająca serce powieść laureata Nagrody Pulitzera i autora bestsellerowej �������ٴǷɾ���ś����.

Astrobiolog Theo Byrne, zajmujący się badaniem życia poza ziemskiego, samodzielnie wychowuje dziewięcioletniego syna. Robin jest ciepłym, serdecznym chłopcem, niezwykle wrażliwym - podobnie jak jego nieżyjąca już matka - na przyrodę i nękające ją zagrożenia związane ze zmianami klimatycznymi. Trudno mu jednak dostosować się do reguł panujących w społeczeństwie. Nie umie odnaleźć się wśród rówieśników, bywa agresywny - za co grozi mu wyrzucenie ze szkoły. Specjaliści zalecają leczenie środkami psychoaktywnymi. Theo nie chce się na to zgodzić. Decyduje się poddać syna eksperymentalnej terapii metodą neurofeedbacku.

Zadziwienie to niezwykle intymna i poruszająca powieść, w której autor rysuje portret pięknej, choć niełatwej miłości łączącej ojca i syna. Znakomite opisy przyrody, hipnotyzujące wizje życia pozaziemskiego, a przede wszystkim stawianie ważnych, pełnych troski, ale też bolesnych pytań o przyszłość naszej zagrożonej planety.]]> 368 Richard Powers 8383183569 Kamil 5 2023, owned-books, owned-read 4.14 2021
author: Richard Powers
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> 53528292 The Path to PeaceThe Tao Te Ching is a series of meditations on the mysterious nature of the Tao—the Way, the guiding light, the very source of all existence. According to Lao Tzu (a name meaning "the old master"), the Tao is found where we would least expect it—not in the strong but in the weak; not in speech but in silence; not in doing but in "not-doing."Wise yet worldly, spiritual yet practical, the Tao Te Ching is beloved by seekers all the world over. This edition is rendered by Sam Torode based on the 1919 translation by Dwight Goddard, making this ancient work accessible to contemporary readers.]]> 90 Lao Tzu Kamil 0 currently-reading 4.44 -350
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name: Kamil
average rating: 4.44
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]]> 31818277
Książka może pisarza dręczyć. Może też �� i w tym przypadku to jest lepsze słowo �� uwierać. Drobnym szczegółem. Jakby był jakimś ziarenkiem piasku, które dostało się do buta i uniemożliwia chodzenie. Przyznaję: latami uwierało mnie kilka słów. Nie były odpowiednie, a ja przecież mam pod ręką lepsze.
Parandowski stwierdził, że książka nazajutrz po wydaniu odmawia autorowi posłuszeństwa. Dlatego zapewniam dawnych i nowych czytelników "Gottlandu", że tym razem stworzyłem książkę wreszcie mi posłuszną.
Do następnego wydania oczywiście. - Mariusz Szczygieł o kolejnym wydaniu książki.]]> 256 Mariusz Szczygieł 8380493486 Kamil 5 4.21 2006
author: Mariusz Szczygieł
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/27
date added: 2025/01/27
shelves: 2025, non-fiction, owned-books, owned-read, polish-literature
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]]> 13456414
In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.]]> 110 Steven L. Peck 098374842X Kamil 0 to-read 4.17 2011
author: Steven L. Peck
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> 204845899 304 Didier Eribon 8368059011 Kamil 3 3.79 2023
author: Didier Eribon
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/21
date added: 2025/01/21
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Ok, I’ve read 2/3 of it and I think I get it�� now to the next one
]]> 221516695 An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.]]> 421 Ernest Becker Kamil 0 currently-reading 3.87 1973
author: Ernest Becker
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.87
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rating: 0
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]]> 6559060 512 Alan Hollinghurst 8373197184 Kamil 3 3.58 2004
author: Alan Hollinghurst
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 217258867 Przyczyny amerykańskich konfliktów społecznych i możliwe sposoby ich zakończenia.

W 2010 roku Peter Turchin stwierdził, że Ameryka wpadła w spiralę społecznej dezintegracji, co około 2020 roku doprowadzi do załamania porządku politycznego. Czas pokazał, że jego przewidywania potwierdzają się, a ta książka tłumaczy, dlaczego tak się dzieje. Turchin od ponad ćwierćwiecza wzbogaca badania historyczne podejściem stosowanym w innych dziedzinach nauki. Stworzył kliodynamikę, która bada historię za pomocą statystyki. Na jej podstawie wskazuje źródła spójności wspólnot politycznych i czynniki doprowadzające do ich rozpadu. Wnioski wykorzystuje do tego, aby wyjaśnić obecną sytuację w Stanach Zjednoczonych, które jego zdaniem są o krok od upadku, a winą za ten stan obarcza elity.

Czynniki, które wpływają na niestabilność społeczeństwa, to:

- nadprodukcja elit, które w swoich rękach koncentrują władzę i pieniądze �� przegrani, którym nie udało się wejść w ich szeregi, zamieniają się w kontrelity, podważają normy społeczne, atakują system i próbują go zmienić siłowo;

- pompa bogactwa, która pełną parą działa w Stanach Zjednoczonych od dwóch pokoleń �� zabiera biednym i daje bogatym. Elity robią wszystko, aby nikt inny nie mógł czerpać korzyści z gospodarki. Wykorzystują biedniejszych, aby karmić siebie, przez co ubożeje reszta społeczeństwa i rośnie niezadowolenie.

Znajdujemy się obecnie na zaawansowanym etapie cyklu nadprodukcji elit i wzrostu powszechnego zubożenia, co może doprowadzić do gwałtownego rozłamu politycznego. Taki scenariusz nie musi się sprawdzić, ale czasu na reakcję jest coraz mniej.]]> 360 Peter Turchin 8381755948 Kamil 4 4.04
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]]> 58511594
It follows the unique achievement of her Seasonal cycle of novels - Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer - written and published in as close as possible to real time, between 2016 and 2020, absorbing and refracting the times we are living through: the 'state-of-the-nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us' (New Statesman).

'Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' Observer]]> 230 Ali Smith 0241541344 Kamil 4 2024, owned-books, owned-read 3.82 2022
author: Ali Smith
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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]]> 7786220
Czczony niczym bóg, Paul Muad’Dib wpada w pułapkę, jaką zastawiła na niego prorocza moc: zna dokładnie każdą chwilę swojej przyszłości, każdy swój ruch, każdą decyzję i �� przede wszystkim �� swój straszliwy finał…]]> 272 Frank Herbert 8373017259 Kamil 4 3.91 1969
author: Frank Herbert
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1969
rating: 4
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]]> 50358133 Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque adventure -- at its heart, it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.

Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and our ideals have been sacrificed to the gods of finance, where a TV personality is president and immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds of 9/11 wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one -- least of all himself -- in the process.]]> 368 Ayad Akhtar 0316496421 Kamil 5 4.11 2020
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name: Kamil
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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]]> 58877223 379 Jenny Erpenbeck 332860085X Kamil 0 3.35 2021
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]]> 18910538 Bloomberg Businessweek), "DISGRACED rubs all kinds of unexpected raw spots with intelligence and humor" (Newsday). "In dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence, Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another.... Everyone has been told that politics and religion are two subjects that should be off-limits at social gatherings. But watching these characters rip into these forbidden topics, there's no arguing that they make for ear-tickling good theater" (New York Times). "Add a liberal flow of alcohol and a couple of major secrets suddenly revealed, and you've got yourself one dangerous dinner party" (Associated Press).]]> 105 Ayad Akhtar 0316324477 Kamil 4 4.06 2013
author: Ayad Akhtar
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Kamil 4 before-2012 3.90 1808
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1808
rating: 4
read at: 2002/01/01
date added: 2024/11/18
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]]> 168632462 A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.

A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident.

As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget. Disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who left the community decades before to minister to deprived women in Thailand - then disappeared, presumed murdered. Finally, a troubling visitor to the monastery pulls the narrator further back into her past.

With each of these disturbing arrivals, the woman faces some deep questions. Can a person be truly good? What is forgiveness? Is loss of hope a moral failure? And can the business of grief ever really be finished? A meditative and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most acclaimed and best loved writers.

"Wood joins the ranks of writers such as Nora Ephron, Penelope Lively and Elizabeth Strout." THE GUARDIAN UK]]> 320 Charlotte Wood Kamil 5 2024, owned-books, owned-read 3.73 2023
author: Charlotte Wood
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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]]> 200186164 766 Alexis Wright 1913505936 Kamil 0 currently-reading 3.50 2023
author: Alexis Wright
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.50
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]]> 61437107 A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.

Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish - the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to one another. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity - their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to expression.

Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.]]> 149 Han Kang 0241600278 Kamil 3 2024, owned-books, owned-read 3.52 2011
author: Han Kang
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> 33975390
In recent years, media and technology have perfected the lucrative art of gaining and holding our attention. This extraordinary feat has changed the behaviour of billions of people, and especially the young: by current medical standards, we are experiencing an unprecedented, global pandemic of addiction. But what exactly is an addiction? And what, if anything, might we do about it?

From cliff-hangers to earworms, from religion to pornography, and from the awesome allure of the 'Kim Kardashian: Hollywood' app to the unexpected benefits of the 'butt-brush effect', Irresistible blends fascinating stories with ingenious science to explain how and why we all got hooked. Revealing the surprising causes and sometimes bizarre nature of addiction, this book will equip you with the tools and understanding you need to navigate our irresistible new world.]]> Adam Alter Kamil 4 3.81 2017
author: Adam Alter
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/03
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]]> 211137748 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781035031238.

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.

So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . .]]> 320 Percival Everett Kamil 5 4.42 2024
author: Percival Everett
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2024
rating: 5
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In preparing to read “James,�� I picked up the works of Mark Twain for the first time. It was an enjoyable experience, though it did not quite match the wit and emotional depth of Everett’s prose. “James�� �� aside from Coetzee’s books, four of which I’ve read, some for the second time this year �� is the most complete and mature novel I’ve encountered in the past few months.
]]> 214569039 ��
“[A] searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account.�� �� Jill Lepore

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer

Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from farther away. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already been deported from the United States, but it remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. Their homes have become uninhabitable. They will take their chances.

This vast and unremitting crisis did not spring up overnight. Indeed, as Blitzer dramatizes with forensic, unprecedented reporting, it is the result of decades of misguided policy and sweeping corruption. Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country’s tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered picture for the first time.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is an odyssey of struggle and resilience. With astonishing nuance and detail, Blitzer tells an epic story about the people whose lives ebb and flow across the border, and in doing so, he delves into the heart of American life itself. This vital and remarkable story has shaped the nation’s turbulent politics and culture in countless ways—and will almost certainly determine its future.]]> 544 Jonathan Blitzer 1529039312 Kamil 0 to-read 4.00 2024
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]]> 213779266
W posłowiu do tomu Maciej Robert zauważa: „W wypowiedziach bohaterów Kapli, zdawać by się mogło bliźniaczo do siebie podobnych (bo powiązanych wspólnymi doświadczeniami życia we wspólnej przestrzeni), nie ma mowy o powtarzalności��. To wielowątkowa książka o codziennym życiu, o pracy i czasie, o stagnacji i nieustannych zmianach, a zarazem subtelna elegia na cześć odchodzącego świata, która została dostrzeżona przez kapituły najważniejszych szwedzkich nagród, m. in. Nagrody Augusta i Nagrody Literackiej Dziennika „Borås Tidning�� dla Debiutantów. Angielski przekład autorstwa Petera Gravesa wyróżniono Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.]]> 832 Marit Kapla 8366257169 Kamil 3 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.23 2019
author: Marit Kapla
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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]]> 6597721 417 Hannah Arendt 8324004661 Kamil 4 4.36 1963
author: Hannah Arendt
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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]]> 200587172 A vibrantly written, irresistibly timely intellectual adventure--from ancient Greece through the Renaissance to the present-day and even beyond--by the bestselling author of At the Existentialist Caf��.This is a book about humanists, but even humanists cannot agree on what a humanist is, declares Sarah Bakewell. Indeed, for centuries thinkers, writers, scholars, politicians, activists, artists, and countless others have been searching for and refining a philosophy of the human spirit. Humanism can be found in writings of Plato and Protagoras and in the thoughts of Confucius. It is ever-present in the work of Michel de Montaigne, and guided the thinking and activism of Harriet Taylor Mill. When Zora Neale Hurston writes, Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn, is glory enough for me, that is humanism par excellence. In Humanly Possible, Bakewell declares that all the different meanings of "humanism" are worth looking at together because they are all concerned with humanitas, or "our culture and learning, our words and art, our good manners and sociable desire to say hello to the universe." What unites humanists, religious or not, scholarly or not, philosophical or not, is that they all put the human world of culture and morality at the center of their concerns. What could be more human than that? Embracing and celebrating humanism's swirling, kaleidoscopic, rich ambiguity, Bakewell sets out not just to trace this vital philosophical lineage through the lives of its major protagonists but to make her own dazzling contribution to its expansive literature. The result is an intoxicating, joyful celebration of the human spirit from one of our most beloved and charming writers. It is also a startlingly timely work that comes exactly when we most need its influence in a world gripped by the anti-humanist forces of authoritarianism.]]> Sarah Bakewell Kamil 4 2024, audiobook, non-fiction 4.12 2023
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name: Kamil
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> 25490 182 Erich Fromm 0826417388 Kamil 3 4.24 1976
author: Erich Fromm
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1976
rating: 3
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]]> 205478762 The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.]]> 381 Richard Powers 1324086033 Kamil 3 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.16 2024
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average rating: 4.16
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Ile światów jest w ������Բ�ś������? Uchwycone w mgnieniu, w przelocie, utrwalone jednym szczegółem historie bohaterów Hanny Krall pojawiają się tylko na chwilę, testując uważność czytelnika. Autorka podąża za każdą z nich tylko przez moment. Tom został ułożony z mikro opowieści, z których każda to temat na osobną książkę. Rozpięty miedzy traumą Zagłady (rozpoznajemy wątki z poprzednich książek, choć w całkowicie nowym ujęciu), wojną w Ukrainie i kryzysem uchodźczym na polsko-białoruskiej granicy, obejmujący obszary tak odległe jak konflikty w Afryce, współczesne międzynarodowe organizacje humanitarne i czasy komunizmu, jednocześnie łączący te wszystkie wątki w harmonijną całość. Teraźniejszość dopisuje coraz to nowe rozdziały do historii kolejnych pokoleń.

To książka o nas.

W Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem Hanna Krall stworzyła nowy język pisania zarówno o Zagładzie, jak i wielkich tragediach naszego świata. To język niezwykle oszczędny, gdzie każde zdanie ma siłę ciosu. Choć sama mówi, że słowa są niewystarczające, a język bezradny, to czytając tę książkę widzimy że jednak udało jej się nad nim zapanować, że jest jej posłuszny.]]> 164 Hanna Krall 8365614596 Kamil 3 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.57 2024
author: Hanna Krall
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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]]> 25616547
From the publisher: "In flow, everyday experience becomes a moment by moment opportunity for joy and self-fulfillment. Flow is the brain-child of a fascinating psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a renowned social scientist who has devoted his life's work to the study of what makes people truly happy, satisfied and fulfilled. While much of the study of psychology investigates disorders of the human mind, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi takes a different route."]]> Mihály Csíkszentmihályi Kamil 3 2024, audiobook 3.77 1990
author: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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]]> 123136728 207 Samantha Harvey 0802161545 Kamil 4 2024, owned-books, owned-read 3.56 2023
author: Samantha Harvey
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> 127282468
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.

Both of these approaches preclude an appreciation of its greatness as literature, its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture. Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis , which includes the original text, is a powerful consideration of the profound meanings and promise of God’s enduring covenant with humanity. This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God’s abiding faith in Creation.]]> 344 Marilynne Robinson 0374299404 Kamil 0 to-read 4.03 2024
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name: Kamil
average rating: 4.03
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]]> 213009381 Jeden z najważniejszych światowych reportaży ostatnich lat. Trzymająca w napięciu opowieść o nieszczęśliwym wypadku, z której wyłania się przejmujący obraz życia w państwie podzielonym murem.

Pięcioletni Milad, syn Abeda Salamy, jest podekscytowany szkolną wycieczką. Część rodziców boi się wyjątkowo deszczowej pogody, ale ostatecznie autobusy ruszają w drogę. Kilka godzin później Abed dowiaduje się, że doszło do wypadku.

Gdy dociera na miejsce, widzi spalony autobus i wszechogarniający chaos. Część dzieci przewieziono do szpitali w Jerozolimie i na Zachodnim Brzegu, niektóre zaginęły. Abed musi odnaleźć syna, ale czy mu się to uda? Jest po niewłaściwej stronie muru separacyjnego i ma niewłaściwe dokumenty. Jak przekroczy punkty kontrolne?

Autor tworzy pełną empatii i zrozumienia opowieść, w której splatają się głosy palestyńskich rodziców i ratowników oraz izraelskich osadników i żołnierzy.

W jaki sposób wydarzenia z przeszłości i decyzje polityków doprowadziły wszystkich bohaterów do tego jednego tragicznego dnia?]]> 336 Nathan Thrall 8383670117 Kamil 5 4.50 2023
author: Nathan Thrall
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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]]> 214285867 Długo oczekiwany prozatorski powrót Doroty Masłowskiej

Trashowa powieść, która w obłąkańczo zabawny i zarazem śmiertelnie poważny sposób chwyta kawał współczesnej rzeczywistości. Przez karty książki przewijają się osobliwe, choć jakby skądś nam znane postaci: kobiety w rozsypce i bywalcy siłki, wystylizowani mieszczanie i świadome swoich praw małolaty. Widzimy je w najróżniejszych miejscach �� w ekskluzywnych mieszkaniach, na wege weselu, w craftowej piekarni i przeznaczonym do rozbiórki hotelu. Postaci te napędzane są przez rozmaite fantazmaty, mniej lub bardziej wygórowane aspiracje i niemożliwe do zaspokojenia pragnienia. Autorka w niepodrabialny i sobie tylko właściwy sposób tropi popkulturowe schematy i językowe klisze tworzące ich sztucznie wygenerowany świat. I hakuje ten świat wyobraźnią, która podpowiada także surrealistyczne scenariusze.

Rewelacyjna proza, napisana z ogromnym literackim szwungiem. Mistrzostwo Polski w obserwowaniu Polski oraz krajów zagranicznych.]]> 160 Dorota Masłowska 8368059178 Kamil 5 3.55 2024
author: Dorota Masłowska
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2024
rating: 5
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]]> 40692308
Wybitna, odważna intelektualnie książka. Ogarnia tereny, które dotychczas filozofia omijała. Ukazuje metafizyczny wymiar zdarzeń codziennych. (Katarzyna Rosner)

Pozornie przez szczelinę sączy się spokojny nurt refleksji filozoficznej Autorki, która wychodzi od faktów życia i próbuje dociec, jakiego typu doświadczenie jest w nie wpisane. W rzeczywistości jednak książka jest porażającą manifestacją grozy, jaka płynie ze zderzenia tekstu życia z metafizyką śmierci. (Czesław Dziekanowski)

Myśl polska potrafi więc mówić o okrucieństwie poza moralistyką. (Maria Janion)

Ani w literaturze polskiej, ani obcej nie ma takiej książki. (Stefan Morawski)]]> 219 Jolanta Brach-Czaina 8365970252 Kamil 2 3.82 1992
author: Jolanta Brach-Czaina
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1992
rating: 2
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]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Kamil 0 to-read 3.95 1872
author: Jules Verne
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1872
rating: 0
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]]> 18365721
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology. Diamond also dissects racial theories of global history, and the resulting work—Guns, Germs and Steel—is a major contribution to our understanding the evolution of human societies.]]> Jared Diamond Kamil 5 3.64 1997
author: Jared Diamond
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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]]> 53344209
Na swój cichy, przesycony melancholią i ironią sposób ostatnia proza Sebalda należy do najważniejszych książek minionych dekad �� pisze w posłowiu do książki Wojciech Nowicki. �� Zawdzięcza to literackiej klasie, owej frazie, zdolnej unieść jej główne tematy: Zagładę, zagłady, niemożność dopasowania i pragnienie odosobnienia, potrzebę pamięci i niepamięć, świat ludzi wrogich wobec, jak uważają, istot niższych �� ras podległych i zwierząt; te ostatnie Sebald przedstawia jako często zmartwiałe lub od dawna już martwe preparaty, podobnie zresztą jak ludzi, których nagrobki, kości i duchy pozbawione widomego znaku, porzucone, spalone, zwidują się bohaterowi książki.

Austerlitz to powieść na wskroś aktualna, ze zdwojoną siłą przypominająca wydarzenia, które zbyt łatwo ulatują z pamięci ludzkości. Mimo że w książce tej wszystko wydaje się nadzwyczaj zrozumiałe, przejrzysta proza Sebalda kluczy i zwodzi, odkrywając coraz to nowe światy: te rzeczywiste i te wyobrażone.]]> 344 W.G. Sebald 8366257355 Kamil 5 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.40 2001
author: W.G. Sebald
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/08/22
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]]> 36692478 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375.

Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.

Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle's death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American--grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.

Hailed as an instant classic, There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.]]> 294 Tommy Orange Kamil 4 2018, audiobook 3.98 2018
author: Tommy Orange
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2018/10/24
date added: 2024/08/18
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]]> 209393106
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK �� The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty." The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.�� —Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.]]> Tommy Orange Kamil 4 4.04 2024
author: Tommy Orange
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 4
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]]> 52842705 is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet.

In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.

This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?

Summer.]]> 384 Ali Smith 0241207061 Kamil 5 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.05 2020
author: Ali Smith
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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]]> 40545817 336 Ali Smith 0241207053 Kamil 4 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.08 2019
author: Ali Smith
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/08/16
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]]> 33563474 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley - a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. More than a century after its publication, the critical debate over the symbolic significance of Huck's and Jim's voyage is still fresh, and it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor.]]> 280 Mark Twain Kamil 3 2024 3.38 1884
author: Mark Twain
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.38
book published: 1884
rating: 3
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]]> 7958940 144 Daniel Clowes 8360915180 Kamil 3 3.69 1993
author: Daniel Clowes
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1993
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/08/08
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]]> 25829872 144 Guy de Maupassant 9954133364 Kamil 0 to-read 3.00 1886
author: Guy de Maupassant
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1886
rating: 0
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]]> 9964939 Understand where we came from.

Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization.

Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its precepts became the framework for societal structure throughout the last millennium. ��From politics and science, to academia and technology, the Bible's sacred copy became the key that unlocked the Western mind.

Through Mangalwadi's wide-ranging and fascinating investigation, you'll discover:

What triggered the West's passion for scientific, medical, and technological advancement
How the biblical notion of human dignity informs the West's social structure and how it intersects with other worldviews
How the Bible created a fertile ground for women to find social and economic empowerment
How the Bible has uniquely equipped the West to cultivate compassion, human rights, prosperity, and strong families
The role of the Bible in the transformation of education
How the modern literary notion of a hero has been shaped by the Bible's archetypal protagonist
Journey with Mangalwadi as he examines the origins of a civilization's greatness and the misguided beliefs that threaten to unravel its progress. ��Learn how the Bible transformed the social, political, and religious institutions that have sustained Western culture for the past millennium, and discover how secular corruption endangers the stability and longevity of Western civilization.

Endorsements:

“This is an extremely significant piece of work with huge global implications. Vishal brings a timely message.�� (Ravi Zacharias, author, Walking from East to West and Beyond Opinion)

“In polite society, the mere mention of the Bible often introduces a certain measure of anxiety. A serious discussion on the Bible can bring outright contempt. Therefore, it is most refreshing to encounter this engaging and informed assessment of the Bible’s profound impact on the modern world. Where Bloom laments the closing of the American mind, Mangalwadi brings a refreshing optimism.�� (Stanley Mattson, founder and president, C. S. Lewis Foundation)

“Vishal Mangalwadi recounts history in very broad strokes, always using his cross-cultural perspectives for highlighting the many benefits of biblical principles in shaping civilization.�� (George Marsden, professor, University of Notre Dame; author, Fundamentalism and American Culture)]]> 442 Vishal Mangalwadi 1595553223 Kamil 0 to-read 4.31 2011
author: Vishal Mangalwadi
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> 23129811 On Palestine is the sequel to their acclaimed book Gaza in Crisis.]]> 220 Noam Chomsky 1608464709 Kamil 4 4.28 2015
author: Noam Chomsky
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> 64227024 To nie jest Miami to cykl wstrząsających literackich reportaży, które dzięki znakomitemu warsztatowi autorki wykraczają poza zwykłą literaturę faktu.

Melchor przygląda się temu, co kieruje mordercami i społecznymi wyrzutkami, pragnieniom i okolicznościom, które pchają ich na drogę występku. Choć bohaterów jej tekstów łatwo byłoby nazwać potworami, meksykańska pisarka zmusza nas do próby zrozumienia ich, a nawet empatii. Pełne brutalności, przejmujące historie Fernandy Melchor pozwalają wniknąć w społeczeństwo na krawędzi chaosu, do którego gazetowe relacje z pierwszych stron nie dają dostępu.]]> 180 Fernanda Melchor Kamil 3 3.89 2013
author: Fernanda Melchor
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/28
date added: 2024/07/28
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]]> 49008246
Carefully crafted characters and masterful, dynamic storytelling place Catherine the Great and the Small in the company of the very best of novels , which speak about the reality of their geographic setting and are remembered for their convincing, strong, maladjusted characters. Catherine is certainly one of them: a powerful female voice seeking her place within her family, among friends, in the cities she lives in, and constructing her unique identity as a daughter, granddaughter, friend, mistress, wife and a mother.

The very first novel in English by Montenegrin author Olja Knežević]]> 280 Olja Knezevic Kamil 1 3.73 2019
author: Olja Knezevic
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2019
rating: 1
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An example of how a promising novel can devolve into a melodramatic mess. As of halfway through, I continued like a dutiful Catholic boy at Mass, hoping the pompousness would eventually lead to something meaningful. After another 50 pages, I decided enough was enough. I’m done. Life’s too short to roll my eyes through the last 50 pages.
]]> 199392376 What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology?

In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer: The body’s cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or android cells that not only cure those afflicted but leave them virtually immortal. At the same time, literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning "Beloved," in honor of his husband. When Dr. Beeko, who holds the patent to the nano-therapy technology, learns of Panit, he transfers its consciousness into an android body, giving it freedom and life. As Yonghun, Panit, and other nano humans thrive—and begin to replicate—their development will lead them to a crossroads and a choice with existential consequences.]]> 256 Anton Hur 0063344483 Kamil 0 to-read 3.82 2024
author: Anton Hur
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> 42123675 Nowe spojrzenie na dzieje świata.

Jedna z najdonioślejszych książek historycznych ostatnich lat. Imponująca panorama dziejów Europy i świata od starożytności aż po współczesność, opisanych z zupełnie nowej perspektywy. Znakomity brytyjski historyk w formie wartkiej opowieści ukazuje, jak ogromny wpływ na kształtowanie się cywilizacji zachodniej miały cywilizacje Bliskiego Wschodu i Azji. Jego fascynujące dzieło obejmuje bogatą i zaskakującą mozaikę procesów historycznych, gospodarczych, społecznych i kulturowych, przedstawionych w syntetyczny i przystępny sposób.]]> 720 Peter Frankopan 8328026910 Kamil 4 2024, ebooks, non-fiction 4.26 2015
author: Peter Frankopan
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/07/14
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]]> 62951865
The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee’s father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother’s maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility—the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.]]> 276 Jayne Anne Phillips 0451493338 Kamil 1 ebooks No 3.56 2023
author: Jayne Anne Phillips
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2023
rating: 1
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No
]]> 44279110
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.]]> 289 Ottessa Moshfegh 0525522131 Kamil 1 dnfed 3.62 2018
author: Ottessa Moshfegh
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2018
rating: 1
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date added: 2024/07/12
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review:
Absolutely and utterly boring. Halfway through and no, I’m sorry but no.
]]> 196788402 276 Trevor Noah Kamil 4 2024 4.17 2016
author: Trevor Noah
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> 38145069 Najsłynniejsza, nagrodzona Pulitzerem powieść Elizabeth Strout, na podstawie której powstał znakomity serial HBO.

Nigdy nie przeprasza. Silna, arogancka i bezkompromisowa. Taka z pozoru jest Olive Kitteridge, surowa nauczycielka matematyki, oschła żona i wymagająca matka. Z okruchów zdarzeń codziennego życia wyłania się jednak portret niejednoznacznej, fascynującej osoby. Poprzez losy Olive i innych mieszkańców nadmorskiego miasteczka Crosby poznajemy świat ludzi, którzy są spragnieni uwagi, czułych gestów i zrozumienia. Tymczasem prowadzą międzypokoleniowe wojny, zamykają się we własnych światach, wspominają przegrane marzenia i niespełnione miłości.

Takie tajemnice kryją się pod warstwą sielankowego uroku małego miasteczka, które wydaje się beztroskim i szczęśliwym miejscem na ziemi.]]> 384 Elizabeth Strout 8380322193 Kamil 3 2024, owned-books, owned-read 3.87 2008
author: Elizabeth Strout
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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]]> 41125816
Zadając druzgocący cios ostrą poetycką obrazowością, Lebiediew zajmuje miejsce tuż obok Sołżenicyna i innych wielkich pisarzy, którzy zdecydowali się mówić... Powieść odważna i porażająca.]]> 370 Sergei Lebedev 8362498307 Kamil 3 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.39 2010
author: Sergei Lebedev
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/06/09
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]]> 3379241 255 Sławomir Mrożek 8373921389 Kamil 3 2024 3.77 2007
author: Sławomir Mrożek
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/01
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]]> 75400
He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart.]]> 265 J.M. Coetzee 0099490625 Kamil 4 3.45 2005
author: J.M. Coetzee
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> 203648278 1979 rok. Jedna z irlandzkich wysepek.

Anglik Lloyd jest malarzem. Na wyspę przybywa w poszukiwaniu wyjątkowego światła i przestrzeni. Zależy mu na izolacji, tak żeby nic nie zaburzało jego weny.

Francuz Jean-Pierre Masson jest językoznawcą. Na wyspę przybywa, żeby badać dialekt jej mieszkańców. Zależy mu na izolacji, tak żeby nic nie zaburzało wyników jego badań.

Irlandczycy z zainteresowaniem przyglądają się spotkaniu tych dwóch osobowości. Niektórzy dziwią się przybyszom, inni irytują ich nachalną obecnością, a jeszcze inni wiążą z nimi nadzieje na lepsze jutro.

Tymczasem w ogarniętej wojną domową Irlandii dochodzi do eskalacji przemocy i niemal codziennie giną niewinni ludzie.

Audrey Magee odmalowała barwny portret wyspiarskiego życia. Pokazała zarazem, jakie koszty niesie ze sobą imperializm w najróżniejszych �� nawet pozornie niewinnych �� formach. Kolonia to czuła, ale i pełna szorstkiego humoru powieść, celebrująca piękno i trwałość więzi między ludźmi.]]> 287 Audrey Magee 8368045126 Kamil 4 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.20 2022
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> 60827705 The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all.

Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.

Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo―because we are all implicated.]]> 279 Siddharth Kara 1250284295 Kamil 0 to-read 4.43 2023
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]]> 1772910 82 Fyodor Dostoevsky Kamil 0 to-read 4.16 1848
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.16
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]]> 60065606
En kvinna ligger nedbäddad i feber när en handfull människor ur det förflutna står framför henne: en blivande kändis som skrev ett brev, en vän som försvann bortom kartan, en kärlek utan framtid.

Detaljerna är en roman med fyra porträtt och tusen detaljer, om tummade pocketböcker, psykedelisk dans och kippande oro. Vilken är den perfekta millennieklänningen? Kan en älskad människa verkligen försvinna? Och vem är det egentligen som porträtteras, personen på bilden eller den som håller i penseln?

»Sveriges minst hyllade stora författare«
Victor Malm, Expressen

»Svensk mästare i att skriva dialog«
Malte Persson]]> 152 Ia Genberg 9127175545 Kamil 0 to-read 3.90 2022
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]]> 60582780
Based on Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel’s investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.

The novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide.

Combining fiction with autobiography and history�� the scientists Nicolae Tesla and George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript―Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.]]> 639 Mircea Cărtărescu 1646052021 Kamil 0 to-read 4.32 2015
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name: Kamil
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]]> 6337163
A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father - a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer. Never having met the man himself, the biographer interviews five people who knew Coetzee well, including a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin Margot, and a Brazilian dancer whose daughter took English lessons with him. These accounts add up to an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it hard to make meaningful connections with the people around him.

Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being. Incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny, Summertime is a compelling work by one of today's most esteemed writers.]]> 266 J.M. Coetzee 1846553180 Kamil 5 owned-books, 2024, owned-read 3.78 2009
author: J.M. Coetzee
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.78
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]]> 203167748 Powieść o samotności, kobiecej przyjaźni i świecie bez mężczyzn.

Bezimienna dziewczyna spędza całe swoje życie wraz z trzydziestoma dziewięcioma innymi kobietami w podziemnym więzieniu. Pod nieustannym nadzorem uzbrojonych strażników, którzy nigdy nie wypowiadają do nich choćby słowa, więźniarki nie wiedzą nawet, jak się tam znalazły, nie mają pojęcia o upływie czasu i jedynie niejasno pamiętają swoje wcześniejsze życie. Bohaterka nie wie, czym zasłużyła sobie na swój los ani jak wygląda świat na zewnątrz, wyobraża go sobie tylko mgliście na podstawie opowieści współwięźniarek. Jednego dnia rozlega się alarm, nadzorcy znikają, a ona musi wymyślić siebie na nowo, przytłoczona pełną niepewności i niebezpieczeństw wolnością. Ale czym w tej powieści jest wolność i skąd wziął się ten dystopijny świat? Czy został porzucony? Zniszczony przez wirusa? Najechany?]]> 180 Jacqueline Harpman 8367515684 Kamil 4 2024, owned-books, owned-read 3.96 1995
author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> 199112718
This magisterial and highly inventive novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason brims with love and madness, humor and hope. Following the cycles of history, nature, and even language, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment, to history, and to one another. It is not just an unforgettable novel about secrets and destinies, but a way of looking at the world that asks the timeless question: How do we live on, even after we’re gone?]]> 11 Daniel Mason 0593790510 Kamil 4 2024, audiobook 4.03 2023
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name: Kamil
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> 64225817
W chłodny wiosenny wieczór kobieta w średnim wieku przygotowuje risotto w skromnej kuchni domku myśliwskiego, zjada je samotnie i nakłada porcję dla psa. Nazajutrz rano z zaskoczeniem odkrywa, że przez noc pojawiła się niewidzialna bariera, która oddziela ją od reszty świata. Nazywa ją po prostu „ścianą��. Bohaterka, której imienia nie poznamy, zostaje sama, a przynajmniej tak się zdaje. W towarzystwie psa Luchsa, krowy Belli i kotów rozpoczyna przerażającą walkę o przetrwanie, zostając „głową niezwykłej rodziny��.

Ś�������Բ�, wydana dwa lata po wzniesieniu muru berlińskiego, należy do najbardziej zagadkowych, a jednocześnie wielowymiarowych i przejmujących austriackich powieści XX wieku. Można ją czytać jako nową wersję Robinsona Crusoe, można w niej widzieć postapokaliptyczny klasyk doby wyścigu nuklearnego, lecz można w niej także dostrzec alegoryczną przypowieść o XX-wiecznych kataklizmach. Nie dziwi więc, że w ostatnich latach twórczość Haushofer przeżywa renesans, czego świadectwem ekranizacja Ściany z autorstwa Juliana Pölslera z 2012 roku i sukces powieści w Stanach Zjednoczonych.]]> 288 Marlen Haushofer 8367515501 Kamil 3 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.08 1963
author: Marlen Haushofer
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.08
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]]> 199195942 Ostatni tom niezwykłej sagi Riada Sattoufa

Arab przyszłości to rozpisana na sześć tomów autobiograficzna historia Riada Sattoufa, który swoje dzieciństwo spędził pomiędzy Libią, Syrią i Francją. Życie w ubogiej arabskiej wiosce, nauka w tamtejszej szkole i zachowanie coraz bardziej radykalizujacego się ojca kontrastują tu z liberalnym gimnazjum w Rennes i patchworkową francuską rodziną.

W piątym tomie serii Riad dorasta, słucha Nirvany, zakochuje się i próbuje zrozumieć, kim jest. Tymczasem jego ekscentryczna rodzina przeżywa prawdziwy dramat uwikłany w kulturowe nieporozumienia i niuanse Bliskiego Wschodu.

Ten kipiący życiem i niestroniący od czarnego humoru komiks to popis niesamowitego talentu Riada Sattoufa i dzieło, które już dziś porównuje się do Mausa Arta Spiegelmana i Persepolis Marjane Satrapi.]]> 178 Riad Sattouf 8367360575 Kamil 4 4.63 2022
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]]> 123851414
Arab przyszłości to rozpisana na sześć tomów autobiograficzna historia Riada Sattoufa, który swoje dzieciństwo spędził pomiędzy Libią, Syrią i Francją. Życie w ubogiej arabskiej wiosce, nauka w tamtejszej szkole i zachowanie coraz bardziej radykalizujacego się ojca kontrastują tu z liberalnym gimnazjum w Rennes i patchworkową francuską rodziną.

W piątym tomie serii Riad dorasta, słucha Nirvany, zakochuje się i próbuje zrozumieć, kim jest. Tymczasem jego ekscentryczna rodzina przeżywa prawdziwy dramat uwikłany w kulturowe nieporozumienia i niuanse Bliskiego Wschodu.

Ten kipiący życiem i niestroniący od czarnego humoru komiks to popis niesamowitego talentu Riada Sattoufa i dzieło, które już dziś porównuje się do Mausa Arta Spiegelmana i Persepolis Marjane Satrapi.]]> 178 Riad Sattouf Kamil 4 4.40 2020
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name: Kamil
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]]> 58673148
Mały Riad wyrósł na nastolatka. W poprzednich tomach jego dzieciństwo komplikowało się z powodu ścierania się dwóch kultur - francuskiej i syryjskiej - oraz pogłębiającego się kryzysu w związku rodziców. Teraz jego ojciec, Adbel-Razak, wyjechał by podjąć pracę w Arabii Saudyjskiej i po pielgrzymce do Mekki staje się coraz bardziej religijny, a granica między idealizmem a fanatyzmem coraz bardziej się zaciera. Matka Riada, Clementine, przez lata podążająca za nim z miejsca na miejsce, ma już dość. Nie chce żyć w kraju, w którym kobiety nie mają żadnych praw i wraca z dziećmi do Francji, gdzie mieszka z własną matką... aż do momentu, gdy niespodziewanie pojawia się Abdel-Razak, by zabrać rodzinę w kolejną podróż, której konsekwencje mogą być dramatyczne.

Arab przyszłości to prawdziwa historia pewnej ekscentrycznej rodziny, pokazująca zaskakujący, pełen niuansów i absurdów obraz Bliskiego Wschodu. Kipiący życiem i nie stroniący od czarnego humoru komiks to popis niesamowitego talentu Riada Sattoufa i dzieło, które już dziś porównuje się do Mausa Arta Spiegelmana i Persepolis Marjane Satrapi.]]> 284 Riad Sattouf 8366128776 Kamil 5 4.63 2018
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]]> 23399010
Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in a style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.
]]> 1356 William T. Vollmann 0670015989 Kamil 0 to-read 4.19 2015
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]]> 120855177
'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.'

Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever.

Heralded as a new masterpiece, this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region, three generations after the abolition of slavery, is at once fantastic and realist, covering themes of family, spirituality, slavery and its aftermath, and political struggle.

Translated by Johnny Lorenz.]]> 288 Itamar Vieira Junior 1839766409 Kamil 0 to-read 4.10 2019
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]]> 65215671

Of course, each thing has its own sides to every story.

In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it?

The Box follows an impenetrable rectangle as it changes hands in a collapsing metropolis, causing confluences, conflicts, rifts, and disasters. Different narrators, each with a distinctive voice, give secondhand accounts of decisive moments in the box’s life. From the anthrophobe to a newly hired curator of a renowned art collection, from a couple who own an antiquarian bookshop to a hotel bartender hiding from a terrible past, the storytellers repeat rumors and rely on faulty memories, grasping at something that continually escapes them. Haunting their recollections is one mysterious woman who, convinced of the box’s good or evil powers, pursues it with deadly desperation.

In this mesmerizing, intricately constructed puzzle of a novel, Mandy-Suzanne Wong challenges our understanding of subjects and objects, of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn’t animate? What do we value and what do we discard?]]> 264 Mandy-Suzanne Wong 1644452499 Kamil 0 to-read 3.53
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]]> 26088078 Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling.]]> 178 J.M. Coetzee Kamil 5 2024, owned-books, owned-read 4.00 1997
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name: Kamil
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 5
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]]> 26088077 178 J.M. Coetzee Kamil 4 3.88 2002
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name: Kamil
average rating: 3.88
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rating: 4
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]]> 19550222 65 Anton Chekhov Kamil 5 4.12 1897
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Kamil
average rating: 4.12
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rating: 5
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]]> 60167455
Emma dzieciństwo spędziła w klasztorze. Wtedy też przeczytała powieści, które rozbudziły w niej pragnienie życia w lepszym, bogatszym świecie. Choć Karol Bovary nie jest idealnym kandydatem, z małżeństwem z nim młoda kobieta wiąże spore nadzieje. Szybko jednak przeżywa gorzkie rozczarowanie codziennością, a nuda i rutyna pchają ją w ramiona kolejnych kochanków w poszukiwaniu spełnienia. Emma porzuca konwenanse, kreuje swój świat, odległy od realnego, i stopniowo pogrąża się w szaleństwie. Tymczasem jej mąż pozostaje błogo nieświadomy i ślepy na to, co dzieje się z nieszczęśliwą żoną.

Pani Bovary w chwili publikacji wywołała skandal obyczajowy, a po kilku latach została wpisana do indeksu ksiąg zakazanych. Dziś zalicza się ją do najwybitniejszych osiągnięć realizmu psychologicznego w literaturze.]]> 432 Gustave Flaubert 8367022963 Kamil 2 2022, owned-books, owned-read 3.71 1856
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average rating: 3.71
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So a woman in need of a little fun needs to end up ruining herself and everyone around her�� and it is by Flaubert - carrier of every venereal disease there was to pick up in XIX century. Not a fan
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W swoim autobiograficznym komiksie, podbijającym serca anglojęzycznych czytelników (również Baracka Obamy, który umieścił tytuł na liście najlepszych lektur roku), Kate Beaton powraca pamięcią do tych dwóch lat spędzonych na piaskach �� w epoce, kiedy kopalnie uzyskiwały swoje największe zyski, a jednocześnie najbardziej niszczyły środowisko naturalne, gdy za pracą emigrowały tam setki mężczyzn i tylko nieliczne kobiety.

Jako jedna z nich autorka doświadczyła upokorzeń i przemocowych zachowań, a silna patriarchalna struktura utrudniała jej szukanie sprawiedliwości.
Kaczki to nie tylko opowieść o indywidualnej traumie czy uwikłaniu w niszczące mechanizmy wielkiego przemysłu, ale przede wszystkim obserwacja złożonych procesów zachodzących w społecznościach pracowników odciętych od swoich korzeni i rodzin, a skoncentrowanych na zarobku i przetrwaniu w grupie. Czy taka praca zmienia człowieka? Czy można pozostać sobą tam, gdzie nie ma miejsca na emocje i prywatność? Czy my na pewno poradzilibyśmy sobie lepiej?]]> 436 Kate Beaton 8367360605 Kamil 3 4.33 2022
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„Arab przyszłości�� to prawdziwa historia pewnej ekscentrycznej rodziny, pokazująca zaskakujący, pełen niuansów i absurdów obraz Bliskiego Wschodu. Kipiący życiem i nie stroniący od czarnego humoru komiks to popis niesamowitego talentu Riada Sattoufa i dzieło, które już dziś porównuje się do „Mausa�� Arta Spiegelmana i „Persepolis�� Marjane Satrapi.]]> 152 Riad Sattouf 8366128180 Kamil 4 4.43 2016
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]]> 60317128 Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.]]> 550 Barbara Kingsolver Kamil 4 2024, ebooks 4.58 2022
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name: Kamil
average rating: 4.58
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]]> 55939997 1215 Charles Dickens 9895621361 Kamil 0 currently-reading 4.57 1850
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name: Kamil
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]]> 39906327 152 Jon Fosse 191069553X Kamil 3 2024, ebooks 3.62 2018
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name: Kamil
average rating: 3.62
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]]> 61330060 Ostatni, wydany pośmiertnie, zbiór opowiadań wybitnego amerykańskiego pisarza

Denis Johnson jednym zdaniem umie przykuć nas do lektury. „Dziś rano dopadł mnie taki smutek na myśl o tempie życia �� o dystansie, jaki dzieli mnie od własnej młodości, o tym, jak uporczywie żałuje się rzeczy sprzed lat, ale też żałuje się ciągle czegoś nowego, o tym, ile wymyślnych kształtów potrafi przybrać porażka �� że niemal rozbiłem auto��.

Umie też sprawić, że zwyczajne epizody �� towarzyskie spotkanie, telefon od byłej żony (której?), wiadomość o śmierci dawno zapomnianego znajomego �� w nieuchwytny sposób łączą się i pozwalają nam dostrzec w nich inny, tajemniczy porządek.]]> 208 Denis Johnson 8367016300 Kamil 3 3.78 2018
author: Denis Johnson
name: Kamil
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/01
date added: 2024/02/10
shelves: 2024, ebooks, owned-books, owned-read
review:

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