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potted_music ([personal profile] potted_music) wrote2015-09-25 01:39 pm

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I had to check something, so I went through my amazon purchases history for 2014.

The list literally consists of industrial quantities of blood-clotting gauze, combat-application tourniquets, a pink flowery backpack, a vibrator, and a book about the golden age of shtetls.

…I think that sums me up better than, um, most anything.
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[personal profile] taelle 2015-09-25 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Was the book good?
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[personal profile] taelle 2015-09-25 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm, sounds interesting, maybe I should try it (one day I will get buried under a (partially virtual) pile of books I intend to read. Though I do get to some of them sooner or later - like, this year I've been reading some bits from your father's book which I had for about six years...)
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[personal profile] taelle 2015-09-25 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I definitely don't read German, I have much better chances with Ukrainian. Sounds v. interesting!

У. х-ний пе-ад ungooglable enough? Basically, I am a weird person who is interested in reading about people whose work she currently is unable to appreciate due to not enough language. I can sort of do nonfiction, but literature is a different kettle of fish.

(weird moment: I tried to decipher a poetical quote and the online dictionary did not know what's гилястий (IIRC). And then I remembered москаляку на гиляку and deciphered it on my own from there...)