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Lucy Anderson

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My life is a fairy tale But the author is German #Booksky #Atheist #OFMD

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Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · Feb 12

The Followers of the beast

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Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 13m

#CurrentlyReading

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, but why didn’t Biden do it immediately???

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 6h

Enjoy the ride! WHAT a book!

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 6h

Today is Italian Heritage Day???

lol

every day is pretty much Italian heritage day.

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 6h

R.I.P. John Lodge

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 6h

HOW cool?

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InfiDale ⚡️ @infidale.bsky.social · 1d

How is “Release the EpiPens” not all over the place with people fighting for healthcare?

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Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 1d

A crash in Huntington Beach

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 1d

Great day!

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 1d

#booksky for #IvanKlíma #memoirs #literaryfiction 📚💙

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Ivan Klíma, Czech Novelist Who Chafed Under Totalitarian Regimes, Dies at 94.
A writer, dissident, teacher, critic, he was the author of more than 40 books.

The New York Times
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Ivan Klima, Czech novelist and playwright, in 2013. “That life can be snapped like a piece of string — that was my daily lesson as a child,” he said. Credit: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.

In the face of Europe's rising nationalism and intolerance, this timely anthology by Czech writers addresses a key issue for today. The courage of Czech writers is legendary. During the Cold War they kept their nation's conscience alive by clandestine publishing while imprisoned as "dissidents" or collecting garbage, washing windows or selling fish as "non-persons," and then they took the lead in the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew communism.

Ivan Klíma has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as "a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West" and a "Czech master at the top of his game. In his novel, No Saints or Angels, a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Klima takes us into the heart of contemporary Prague, where the Communist People's Militia of the Stalinist era marches headlong into the drug culture of the present.

Ivan Klima has been called a "Czech genius" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In these stories spanning his long career from the 1960s to the present, he gives us a gallery of people searching, in love, for escape: factory girls on their day off and assembly-line workers lost in Walter-Mittyesque fantasies; a young woman on a honeymoon with the man she did not marry; a divorce-court judge whose mistress cannot understand his affection for the routines of his marriage; a young wife who falls into a passionate affair with an elderly bookbinder crippled by war.

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Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty shocking that there’s MORE to a book that was already around 1,000 pages.

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 1d

I think this story is hilarious. I know it’s about alienation but I think it’s whimsical

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha ha
He won

Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 1d

More of this please!

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Elizabeth Boquet @lizboquet.bsky.social · 1d

Leaves don’t fall, they let
go when the air finally
earns their rusted trust.
#haiku #fall #autumn #booksky #poem

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...