#thebookofsand

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Top 10 books I enjoyed reading in 2022 most. My readings this year have been dominated by Jorge Luis Borges and Marvel comic books. In the first half of the year, I read five Borges works, and I was fascinated by the Borges' creativity and use of intertextuality. I read Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, in two huge tomes, which has become the longest book I've ever read. In the summer, I took a long break from reading classics and Instagram because of some exams I had. Having always been a Marvel Comics fan, I became more interested in reading comics than ever during that time I took break. If I exclude each and every comic book issue I've read, I've read 26 books this year (27 with Les Misérables' second tome); if I include them, I've over 250. Though I've found Marvel's epic Dark Phoenix Saga perfect, Borges' astounding story collection The Aleph, especially for the namesake story, tops my list this year… Happy new year 2023 to you all, hope it will be better than the preceding one! 🎉🎊 Here's the ranking of my top 10, with the months I read them: 1. #TheAleph by Jorge Luis Borges (January) 2. #DarkPhoenixSaga by Chris Claremont & John Byrne (November-December) 3. #EthanFrome by Edith Wharton (January) 4. #LesMisérables by Victor Hugo (April-May) 5. #TheBookOfSand by J. L. Borges (May) 6. #Dubliners by James Joyce (February) 7. #TheQueenOfSpades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin (January) 8. #TheMaker by J. L. Borges (February) 9. #StrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson (October) 10. #TheTurnOfTheScrew and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James (October-November) ~ Honorable Mentions: • X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont & Brent Anderson (December) • Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (May) • The Signal-Man (and two other stories) by Charles Dickens (October) • A Universal History of Infamy by J. L. Borges (March) • Evelina by Frances Burney (March) • Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (December) ~ #Alef #JorgeLuisBorges #Borges #MarvelComics #Marvel #comicbook #book #books #bookstagram #reading #read #bibliophile #instabook #literature #bookworm #booknerd #2022 #top10of2022 #igreads #classics https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm0teuxIerW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A short story collection, #TheBookOfSand is sublime, fascinating and dreamy. Thanks to #Borges's matchless imagination, pithy but powerful style of narration, it doesn't fail to surprise, excite, baffle, and impress, though the themes and motifs of the stories, which are almost wholly metaphysical, metafictional, mythological, surreal and utopic, are not much different than those in #Ficciones and #TheAleph. Totally riveting and surprising three stories, "#ThereAreMoreThings", "#AvelinoArredondo" and "#TheMirrorAndTheMask", are my favourites in this book. ~ Bir kısa öykü koleksiyonu olan #KumKitabı, olağanüstü, büyüleyici ve rüya gibi. Öykülerin neredeyse tümüyle metafiziksel, metakurgusal, mitolojik, gerçeküstü ve ütopik olan temaları ve motifleri Ficciones ve #Alef'tekilerden çok farklı olmasalar bile, Borges'in eşsiz benzersiz hayalgücü, kısa ve öz ama kuvvetli anlatım tarzı sayesinde şaşırtmayı, heyecanlandırmayı, kafa karıştırmayı ve hayran bırakmayı başarıyor. Tümüyle sürükleyici ve şaşırtıcı üç hikaye, "There Are More Things", "Avelino Arredondo" ve "Ayna ve Maske" bu kitaptaki favorilerim. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ «“En büyük kahramanlıklar sözcüklere dökülmezse parlaklıklarını yitirirler. Utkumu ve övgümü türküleştirmeni istiyorum. Ben Aeneas olacağım, sen de benim Virgilius'um...”» ("Ayna ve Maske"den) ~ «“The brightest deeds lose their luster if they are not minted in words. I desire you to sing my victory and my praises. I shall be Æneas; you shall be my Virgil...”» (from "The Mirror and the Mask", Andrew Hurley translation) ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ «Tek bir suçlu bile yoktur: Tanrısal Bilgelik'in çizdiği planın bilinçli ya da bilinçsiz uygulayıcısı olmayan tek bir kişi yoktur. Şimdi hepsi Gurur'u paylaşıyor.» ("Otuzlar Mezhebi"nden) ~ «There is not one lone guilty man; there is no man that does not carry out, wittingly or not, the plan traced by the All-Wise. All mankind now shares in Glory.» (from "The Sect of the Thirty", Andrew Hurley trans.) ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ #JorgeLuisBorges #ElLibroDeArena #TheSectOfTheThirty #TheNightOfTheGifts #Ulrikke #TheCongress #TheOther #TheDisk #AWearyMansUtopia #Undr #TheBribe #AynaVeMaske #book #books #read #reading #literature #bookstagram #instabook #bookworm https://www.instagram.com/p/CeGJAsLAgKP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Borges, Borges, Borges, Borges, Borges, Borges, Borges at Waterstone's Kensington and everywhere. #uk #london #highstreetkensington #waterstoneskensington #waterstones #bookshops #jorgeluisborges #thealeph #fictions #thebookofsand #thebookofimaginarybeings #brodiesreport #auniversalhistoryofiniquity #labyrinths (at Waterstones Kensington)