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Kun je net zo goed gaan fietsen.

@faticake I tried to read 'The Thursday Murder Club' in Dutch but found the translation to be terribly stifling, so that got dropped and bumped off my list. And the advantage of being in charge of my own reading list is that I can bump up anything to top anytime I like.

With your recommedation still fairly fresh in mind I decided to go for this one immediately, also because that title was just crazy enough that my curiosity was piqued. ;)

I didn't think it was that quick, though. It still took me almost 2 weeks before I finished it.

I'm now continuing with my suggested alternatives to the Thursday Murder Club, and am reading the second book in this list now.

@Placholdr
right now busy?
round nearby boxes?
rovers nullify beavers?
rocket north bound?
record nasty butts?

(please don't let it be the last one)

@lydiaconwell The other Polish novel I have read when I was a teenager: The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński.

That had... oh lessee... incest, bestiality, shitton of violence, rape, even more violence, racism, superstition, ungodly more violence.

It was for our English literature reading list so I've read all that shit when I was like 15 years old. 👀

@Lucseleventje Je kan die dieet ook als een pluspunt marketen. 'Ik zorg ervoor dat mensen met dit soort dieet nog steeds met hun smaakpapillen kunnen genieten!'

@WandelStock@mastodon.art Lol, fantasiefiguren?

@mkwadee This is hurting my brain...

@Lucseleventje Met deze personeelsschaarste, zou het nog steeds net zo kansloos zijn? ;)

I've finally read through **Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead** by *Olga Tokarczuk*, a Polish writer. I remember what my mother told me before about Polish writers, that they're kind of insane with their storytelling. And after having finished this book I think she's right. It's the second book of a Polish writer I've read, and this one's only a slight bit less insane. Just a tad.

So I'm still reading with the theme of old ladies with murder cases here, except this lady isn't quite investigating the murder cases per se. More like, she's actually convinced that it should have been like this, because the stars told her so. She's a complete astrology nut and tries to make horoscopes to explain everything in life. She's also Vegan, and anything harming animals is outright murder. All those people who got killed were hunters, so it served them right too. The Animals (yes with a capital A there) probably took revenge on them. Of course nobody believes her, and many think of her as a madwoman.

When reading, I simply went with the flow of the story because it was all quite surreal. It was like watching a movie where you don't know wtf everybody was smoking, but you just can't stop watching. She doesn't name people by their real names but has given all of them nicknames that suits them (according to her logic). Big Foot, Oddball, Dizzy, Good News, etc. I'm also thinking the people in her area are somewhat strange, which is probably an understatement. The difficulty is that I can't get into too much detail here lest I might spoil the story. This whole book has been quite a weird trip.

Was it a fun read? Well, it's kept me occupied. Was it interesting? Well, yes, but it was also weird. Do I understand this person? Not really, no. Except a bit near the end, some stuff kind of got explained to attribute to this turn of events. At least she's got friends who cares about her, which is quite a redeeming factor in this story.
#Books @faticake

@peterdrake Somehow I like that last line.

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*Niest helemaal over jou*

Every time I am again amazed at how much snot a human body can contain.

@mc Thanks.

I so totally don't like having a cold and feeling all congested in my head. -.-

@PawelK Can totally relate.

@Pat A toot for when you're feeling blue?

@urusan The very towels you tried to dry in the rain?

@urusan That's actually the whole reason that my towels and bedlinens are put in the dryer... I don't want crispy towels and bedsheets, I want their fabric to be broken up into softness.