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Learn Hebrew Pod - Learn to Speak Conversational Hebrew

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Learn Hebrew Pod - The first conversational Hebrew course by podcasts. Learn to speak conversational...

Drink Drank Drunk | A Grammar Show With A Drinking Problem

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A grammar nerd's delight. Co-Hosts Morgan Obidowski and Linda Huss break down current language and...

Arrival (2016)

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When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is...

Nick Cave recommended Holy Bible in Books (curated)

Holy Bible

Collins | 1600 | Religion

9.3

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"I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch – it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time."

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Maggie Nelson recommended Breathturn Into Timestead in Books (curated)

Breathturn Into Timestead

Paul Celan | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry

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"This book brought me to poetry; I could never read it enough. Celan’s poems are a radiant reminder of the most desolate events that can attend humankind (i.e. the Holocaust, suicidal despair) and its most resplendent features (the near mystical possibilities of poetic language, of intimacy). “Single counter- / swimmer, you / count them, touch them / all.’”"

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Elegance of the Hedgehog in Books

Oct 5, 2020

Whoever translated this from the French is an excellent writer themselves. The language is nothing short of elegant, and reminiscent of Ondaatje. The story is simple but the characters are so vivid and special, they draw you in. Simply a lovely read from start to finish (and the twist in the end isn't bad, either).