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5 books I loved in 2023
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
("The Hunger Games universe is a dystopia set in Panem, a North American country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 13 districts in varying states of poverty. Every year, children from the first 12 districts are selected via lottery to participate in a compulsory televised battle royale death match called The Hunger Games.")
The Nome Trilogy by Terry Pratchett
("The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans. Through the books they struggle to survive in the human world and, once they learn of their history from an artefact known as "The Thing", make plans to return home.")
America by Franz Kafka
("Amerika follows the ever-changing fortunes of Bohemian immigrant Karl Rossmann as he encounters people who abuse and exploit him—and in doing so, disabuse him of his preconceptions about America. Karl arrives in America as a shamed man: He was exiled by his parents for impregnating a servant.")
The Archipelago of Another Life by Andreï Makine
("On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin’s reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army’s ranks. Assigned to a search party composed of regulars and reservists, charged with the recapture of an escaped prisoner from a nearby gulag, Gartsev finds himself one of an unlikely quintet of cynics, sadists, and heroes, embarked on a challenging manhunt through the Siberian taiga. But the fugitive, capable, cunning, and evidently at home in the depths of these vast forests, proves no easy prey. As the pursuit goes on, and the pursuers are struck by a shattering discovery, Gartsev confronts both the worst within himself and the tantalizing prospect of another, totally different life.")
Seize The Day by Saul Bellow
("This short novel examines one day in the unhappy life of Tommy Wilhelm, who has fallen from marginal middle-management respectability to unemployment, divorce, and despair.")
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Recently I've been searching online, mostly for nothing, and I saw this lalafanfan duck plush for sale in my country and I couldn't resist to buy it (even if I told myself I won't spend anymore on useless things). I keep seeing it everywhere since some time ago and I always loved it and wanted one too. It's just too cute. Even the small bag was cute. But it was such a shame that it's almost impossible to make it wear the glasses and the hat at the same time...
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