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<\/a><\/p>\nYou get a pretty nasty cold. Not without warm fuzzies though \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Anyhow, here are some of the books I’ve read in the last little while…<\/p>\n
War and Peace<\/strong> Gone Girl<\/strong> Complicated Kindness<\/strong> Night Circus<\/strong> Calculating God<\/strong> and The Diamond Age<\/strong> We have not decided on the next novel yet but I am sure it will be fun!<\/p>\n Kalendar maja<\/strong> A Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime<\/strong> That\u2019s it for now. I am reading the latest issue of Bicycle Quarterly<\/strong> and First Class Tips for Suzuki Parents<\/strong> while waiting for the next Book Club choice to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know what happens when you kiss this face? You get a pretty nasty cold. Not without warm fuzzies though \ud83d\ude09 Anyhow, here are some of the books I’ve read in the last little while… War and Peace It took me well over a year, but I finished it. The media that won out was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p278IQ-pJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt took me well over a year, but I finished it. The media that won out was the audio book. Though the Croatian translation published in several volumes I borrowed from the Cres library was my favourite by far, I am now a big subscriber to audio books. Overall I liked War and Peace<\/strong> though I must admit to enjoying the fiction sections more than the discourses on the various historical and philosophical topics.<\/p>\n
\nMy resourceful neighbors have started a book club. What fun! Gone Girl<\/strong> was the first book we’ve read. It’s a thriller about the spoiled New Yorker who one day disappears. Where did she go? Why? Suspense!<\/p>\n
\nThis was a Canada Reads winner from a few years ago so it was a re-read for me. Strangely enough this book seemed much darker than the first time I’ve read it.<\/p>\n
\nA story of dueling magicians in a magical travelling circus. I hope someone makes a silent movie out of this book. It reminded me very much of \u201cThe Artist\u201d and \u201cBlancanieves\u201d films in atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\nI put these two Sci-fi novels together because I find them to be kind of the antitheses of each other. They are very much like Star Trek and Star Wars. One takes a philosophical concept, or in this case examines problems with current scientific understanding of particular topic and suggests a fictional resolution and the other one creates a fantastical world with compelling protagonists in an unrelenting bildungsroman.<\/p>\n
\nEach year I try to read at least one contemporary Croatian novel. It is a bit more difficult to do in the year I don\u2019t go there. Fortunately, last time I was in Cres the librarian recommended a book but was not able to lend it on the account that it was out and there was a waiting list for it. Nevermind, I wrote down the name and the author and bought it before going back to Canada. I did not read it until this summer because, well, I only read Croatian books in the summer. Kalendar maja<\/strong> is one of the best written Croatian novels I\u2019ve read in a long time. It is somewhat r-rated so I would not just flagrantly recommend it, but it is very good. At 600 pages of small tightly spaced text it is quite substantial but I could not put it down. The novel opens with recently retired Zagrebian gynecologist drinking coffee on a Gornji Grad patio and spying a glimpse of what he thinks might be his ex girlfriend. He decides to orchestrate a reprisal of his graduating class cruise. As he and his septuagenarian comrades slowly float down the Adriatic he recounts his youth from the late forties into the mid seventies.<\/p>\n
\nAn autistic boy puts on a detective hat in order to figure out who killed the neighbour\u2019s dog. This novel contains the most interesting take on commuting by train.<\/p>\n