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Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm

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Days in the History of Silence
by

Merethe Lindstrøm

Ilse's review

May 10, 2023

bookshelves: nordics, 2023, 21th-century

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May 10, 2023 – Shelved

September 1, 2023 – Started Reading

September 1, 2023 –

page 19

8.23% "I have remained standing in the parking lot,like a mythological figure filled with doubt,this is the border between the underworld and our own world, if I turn around now, he will disappear forever. I need to tell this to someone, how it feels, how it is so difficult to live with someone who has suddenly become silent. It is not simply the feeling that he is no longer there. It is the feeling that you are not either."

September 2, 2023 –

page 113

48.92% "At one time I must have thought it would protect her. Not knowing, that it would make her, make them, safer. But when I look at her now, it strikes me that it has had the opposite effect. Maybe it works that way, that what you guess at terrifies you more than what you are told. The blurred, nameless apparition."

September 3, 2023 –

page 195

84.42% "When there is something you cannot do without, there is a need, it is often called love."

September 4, 2023 – Finished Reading