#drive your plow

[beaglesarebad]

Book Review -Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

This book rather hit home for me. I am vegan mostly for animal rights issues and it does saddens me when I see the abuses that happen in society. Each life is unique, singular and precious. So I kind of have a kindred adoration of the main character in this book. “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” is a novel by Olga Tokarczuk that blends elements of mystery, philosophy, and dark…

[rachel-sylvan-author]

Murder Grandmas is one of my favorite genres! Whether they're solving or committing a murder, we support women's rights AND women's wrongs! 😘 Here's to the wild and feral women we love! ❤️

"The Marlow Murder Club" by Robert Thorogood "Peg and Rose Solve a Murder" by Laurien Berenson "A Long Way From Chicago" and "A Year Down Yonder" by Richard Peck "An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good" and "An Elderly Lady Must Be Crossed" by Helene Tursten "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Olga Tokarczuk "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Shoutout to my fellow Canva artist, Sassy! 🥰

QOTD: What is a murder grandma book you love? Committing and solving are equally valid! 😎

[quotespile]

How wonderful – to translate from one language to another, and by so doing to bring people closer to one another – what a beautiful idea.

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[forthegothicheroine]

I knew what books she liked, because she put them on a shelf and lent them to her customers- gloomy horror stories, Gothic novels with crumpled covers featuring a drawing of a Bat. Perverted monks, severed hands that murder people, coffins flushed out of graveyards by a flood. Evidently reading this sort of thing confirmed in her the conviction that we are not living in the worst of worlds, and taught her optimism.

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[myriad--starlings]

I have never believed in any personalized distribution of eternal Light. No Lord God is going to see to it, no celestial accountant. It would be hard for one individual to bear so much suffering, especially an omniscient one; in my view they would collapse under the burden of all that pain, unless equipped in advance with some form of defense mechanism, as Mankind is. Only a piece of machinery could possibly carry all the world’s pain. Only a machine, simple, effective and just. But if everything were to happen mechanically, our prayers wouldn’t be needed.

— Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

[litsnaps]

[ahaura]

Olga Tokarczuk Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

[the-final-sentence]

But I know I still have plenty of time.

Olga Tokarczuk, from Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[catmint1]

Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it’s plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[saintshigaraki]

the way people talk about the length of dune’s first book i was expecting like . 1000 pages or something not a little over 600 lol

[rachel-sylvan-author]

Happy Women in Translation Month! ❤️ “I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman (French) “Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk (Polish) “The Wall” by Marlen Haushofer (Austrian) “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” by Helene Tursten (Swedish) “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata (Japanese) “The Traveling Cat Chronicles” by Hiro Arikawa (Japanese) “A Woman’s Story” by Annie Ernaux (French) “Childhood, Youth, Dependency” by Tove Ditlevsen (Danish) “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante (Italian) “The Forbidden Notebook” by Alba de Céspedes (Cuban-Italian) “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir (French)

QOTD: Who is your favorite translated woman author, and your favorite book by them?

[quotespile]

That’s what I dislike most of all in people – cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can’t experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[cinematic-literature]

La vox humana (2020) by Pedro Almodóvar

Book title

Sobre los huesos de los muertos (Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych in Polish; 2009) by Olga Tokarczuk

Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters (2018) by Lucia Berlin 

Music for Chameleons (1980) by Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) by Truman Capote

Las hijas de otros hombres (Other Men's Daughters in English; 1973) by Richard G. Stern

Too Much Happiness (2009) by Alice Munro

Girl (2019) by Edna O’Brien

Tender is the Night (1934) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald 

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

[dark-academia-alcoholic]

Current reads. Not pictured: Dracula on kindle, my in bed read. What books are the Void reading? I always need new suggestions.

[litsnaps]

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

Every day I relate to Janina Duszejko more and more. She did everything right, and my only complaint is that I wish she had murdered more men.