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Czech literature

Every year at about this time I focus my reading on a single country and read around twenty books from that country. This year the winner is.the CzechRepublic/Czechia, though some of the books were published when the country was still part of Czechoslovakia.

I do not intend to give a potted history of Czech literature. You will find a few links on my.


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As expected, I read fewer books this year (73 books at an average of 263 pages)fewer than previous years for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons, I have to admit, is that I’ve been spending far too much time doomscrolling, as the world seems to be falling apart around us.

My annual marathon reading twenty books from the same nationality, Greece this year. I was s...


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For various reasons, including the fact that it does not have much of an audience, I have discontinued posting new entries to my website here. I will occasionally log on other issues but that won’t be very frequent. If you want to know about you interest to the website you can check on my X./Twitt...


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