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These contemporary short stories take you from the early 1990s to the present day. Dance with Me invites you to follow the characters’ stories in the rhythm of the Waltz, Tango, and boogie-woogie. With an adventurous summer love story of a medical student and a linguist girl from Kyiv, you move to a Christmas story of students trying to solve a mystical puzzle. Years later, the characters have a happy family. One night the woman has a dream about a beautiful lake in Canada, will it come true? Soon, the narrative gets dramatic, blunt, and slightly political at times, with the truth revealed in private correspondence. With unexpected twists, you run a gamut of emotions from thrill and sadness to hope and joy. Tracing the same characters at different stages of their lives makes the collection unique in its storytelling. You see new people appear and impact the protagonist's life. Some of them stay, others go, and so is life. Written in English, the book tells ten extraordinary stories from the ordinary life of Ukrainians before russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Several hyperlinks are included for factuality and readers' interest. #shortstories #kindlebooks #kindlebook #ebooks #creativenonfiction #truestories #goodreads #ukraine #author #writer #booklovers #bookworms #ebooklaunch #publishing #readingtime

Famous authors, the architects of worlds and weavers of tales, hold an eternal place in the heart of literature. Their words, like magic, transport readers to realms of imagination, provoke thought, and inspire generations. These literary luminaries illuminate the path of storytelling and forever shape the literary landscape. #authors #famousauthors #booklovers https://lnkd.in/dDE_kvyr

Life is not your autobiography. It's your fiction. It's the stories that you have created, crafted and curated over the years to protect yourself from the vagaries of the world. It is the sequel after the sequel you've written in the same genre to feel loved, wanted, heard and accepted. Life should be a white paper stating facts as they happened in 14 point Helvetica embellished with the elegant Garamond italics just to add some character to the story. Life is not the footnote you wrote on page 67 which told your back story and changed the narrative of the entire piece. It should not only be the paragraph on page 137 highlighted in fluorescent green that became your only strong point. It should not be the asterix pointers that make your showing up as your most authentic self completely conditional. It should not be the jump you took straight from chapter 7 to chapter 9 just because 8 reminded you of a trauma that better remain untold. It's not the fine print that hides the facts but tells them on need to need basis. It should not be the bibliography of beliefs and fears borrowed from the fictional, yet seemingly autobiographical lives of others. It should be the minutiae of everyday life but told without being dressed up in words that make other's vocabulary feel awfully inadequate. Life should be a third person viewpoint who's seen the experience but not experienced the experience from the centerfield. Life needs to be written big, bold as it is, just the facts.* *No conditions to apply.

The author of my favorite chapter in any book died last week. His name was Milan Kundera; and the chapter, called “Words Misunderstood,” appeared near the middle of the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It explains how a couple fails to understand each other through the device of a mini-dictionary for words like "woman," "strength," or "parade" that briefly outlines the emotional resonance these terms have for each person. It becomes tragically clear that even when they use the same words, they are talking about very different things. I have viewed conflict and failures of connection through that lens ever since I first read the book in my teens. Are there problematic aspects of Kundera’s work and life? Most of his novels were written between the 60’s and the 90’s, and there are definitely parts that have not aged well. However, there is still so much worth exploring in them. They remain very close to my heart, and he has my gratitude for creating and sharing them. #creativity #booklover #whatinspiresme #culture #reading

“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a novel written by Mark Twain, first published in the United States in 1885. It is considered one of the greatest works of American literature and a classic of the coming-of-age genre. The novel is often referred to simply as “Huckleberry Finn” or “Huck Finn.” Check out this article to learn more about Twain's masterpiece. #MarkTwain #AdventuresofHuckleberryFinn #HuckleberryFinn #HuckFinn #novel #americanliterature #iconicbook #iconicliterature #comingofage #classicnovel #arthinkal #arthinkalmagazine

Life is not your autobiography. It's your fiction. It's the stories that you have created, crafted and curated over the years to protect yourself from the vagaries of the world. It is the sequel after the sequel you've written in the same genre to feel loved, wanted, heard and accepted. Life should be a white paper stating facts as they happened in 14 point Helvetica embellished with the elegant Garamond italics just to add some character to the story. Life is not the footnote you wrote on page 67 which told your back story and changed the narrative of the entire piece. It should not only be the paragraph on page 137 highlighted in fluorescent green that became your only strong point. It should not be the asterix pointers that make your showing up as your most authentic self completely conditional. It should not be the jump you took straight from chapter 7 to chapter 9 just because 8 reminded you of a trauma that better remain untold. It's not the fine print that hides the facts but tells them on need to need basis. It should not be the bibliography of beliefs and fears borrowed from the fictional, yet seemingly autobiographical lives of others. It should be the minutiae of everyday life but told without being dressed up in words that make other's vocabulary feel awfully inadequate. Life should be a third person viewpoint who's seen the experience but not experienced the experience from the centerfield. Life needs to be written big, bold as it is, just the facts.* *No conditions to apply.