Jamilya

This book made me Want All These Things.
1. Hold Every Book I Have and touch it, flip through it, look up all underlined passages and definitions of words which I did not know then, make it older, make it bear more than one story.
2. Come Back to Classics. Read Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, re-read RLS and Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Tolstoy.
3. Buy a Ticket to the small siberian city and hold my mum and dad. And let them tell me Stories.

You can play bingo with this book.

This book started and ended with the death of a loved one but still had so much light and hope. And all those journal entries about their everyday life conversations are just pure poetry — intimate, tender, silly.
Left me in tears.

Felt like I had a long conversation with a like-minded stranger in a bar, got a lot of book recommendations out of it. (Of course it helped that I was too from a working class family, a household without any books and an avid book collector since my teens with no one to share my passion with.)

Очевидно, что Херцог нашёл в этих своих джунглях Источник Вечной Жизни человеческого духа. Иначе не объяснишь тот факт, что он прожил минимум 5 человеческих жизней за свои почти 80 лет. What a ride, what a human being.