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Our Wives Under The Sea is the haunting debut novel from Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. …
Our Wives Under The Sea is the haunting debut novel from Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. …
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…
One late summer …
Oceans fortellerstemme er så vakker.
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…
One late summer …
Never cry in a diner. They charge extra if they catch you.
— Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, James Aaron Oh (Narrator)
Året er 1976 i Øst-Tyskland. I drabantbyen Gittersee utenfor Dresden bor 16 år gamle Karin. Hun tar seg av lillesøsteren …
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…
One late summer …
“When I was little, far back as I can remember,” Sony said, his voice eerily distant. “I used to have this dream, you know. I dreamt I was flying over East Gladness. It’s always at night and I can see the little streetlights flickering between the leaves and I’m flying but I don’t hear any wind. Sometimes the dream starts with me high up in the sky. Sometimes I’m on my way up, sometimes I’m coming down. Sometimes I’m over the water tower or the power plants or the big Walmart off Route 7. And for some reason I know—you know how you know things in dreams without nobody telling you?” “Yeah.” Hai turned to look at his cousin. “Well for some reason I knew that the people inside every house in East Gladness, and even beyond that, all across the county, were really penguins. Birds with wings that don’t work. Their rubbery feet shuffling through the little rooms below. And I would just keep soaring. And the thing is, in the dream I can never tell if I’m also a penguin or not. And every time I try to put my hands out in front of me I don’t…I don’t see nothing. But I must be something else since I’m flying and all, and penguins, their wings don’t work. I just can’t tell if, according Darwinian evolution, if the penguins ever flew, whether their wings worked once before, long ago, or were they, like, a hundred years away from working. I wonder if I’m just floating up there alone, the only penguin with wings. And I don’t know if I’m ahead of everybody or behind them. You know what I mean?”
— Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, James Aaron Oh (Narrator)
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…
One late summer …
He seemed like the kind of man who wore his Boy Scouts uniform for his senior yearbook photo.
— Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, James Aaron Oh (Narrator)
Året er 1976 i Øst-Tyskland. I drabantbyen Gittersee utenfor Dresden bor 16 år gamle Karin. Hun tar seg av lillesøsteren …
En middelaldrende mann ligger våken i en stor seng i Texas, fanget i sine egne kvernende tanker. Kona har forlatt …
El Gran Gigante Bonachón es una historia de Roald Dahl, el gran autor de literatura infantil. Aquella noche Sofía no …
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town …
You wake up. You go to work. You don’t go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy …
You wake up. You go to work. You don’t go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy …
Being sixteen is always difficult, but it’s even more so when there’s a Death in the family. Susan hasn’t exactly …
Being sixteen is always difficult, but it’s even more so when there’s a Death in …
She listened with half an ear to what the rest of the class was doing.
It was a poem about daffodils.
Apparently the poet had liked them very much.
Susan was quite stoic about this. It was a free country. People could like daffodils if they wanted to. They just should not, in Susan’s very definite and precise opinion, be allowed to take up more than a page to say so.
— Soul Music by Terry Pratchett, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy (Narrator), and 1 other (Discworld, #16)
