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Last week, Booknik read volumes by Carl-Johan Vallgren, Robert Menasse, Elizabeth George, and the one on the history of Jerusalem synagogues; he attended the pseudo-science conference “Anti-Sefer”, discussed the women’s situation in Judaism, and presented flowers to them; he also had a walk in Istanbul, had a tour through Jewish museums in Germany, and learned words starting with a B. He also learned how to understand Booknik Jr., and children in general. Booknik Jr. found out that adventures only start when you are 75 (and he still has a long way to go), learned the fates of Merlin and the Excalibur, practiced making paper tulips, and went to etching and orchid exhibitions.
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Last week, Booknik studied late antiquity, read the memoir by Hitler’s bodyguard, did not know what to wear for the Purim carnival, discussed the linguistic philosophy, searched for the Jewish national architecture (unsuccessfully), remembered the Jewish Bazaar in Kiev (it all came back to him), drank wine (it was Purim, after all), cooked Yemeni soups, and got used to the American grade school. Booknik Jr. did not waste time either, for he went to the carnival (without the wine part, he is too young for that), read books about Soviet and Japanese schoolkids, and learned how to prepare mishloach manot (and this will come in handy for the next year).
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Last week, Booknik read a book of complaints from travelers in Israel, the memoirs by a Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the novel by Agnon, discussed seeing-eye dogs in a synagogue, visited a film festival in Berlin, watercolor and video art shows in Moscow, and an exhibition on cave Jews in Or Yehuda. He also saw a film by the Coen brothers, had a walk in Vienna, cooked a steak, and learned many interesting things about his own readers. Meanwhile, Booknik Jr. read a tale by Max Weinreich about an evil letter, cooked kreplach, thought about a polar bear, and listened to the radio.
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Last week, Booknik read works by Isabel Allende, Anya Ulinich, Alexander Averbuch, and a book on divorces. He also walked the streets of Baku and went to a photography show in Paris, visited a broken-up concert in Jerusalem, watched Up in the Air, listened to Psoy Korolenko, mused on love, and ate dates, sweet salads, and tabboulehs. Meanwhile, Booknik Jr. read Clive Barker (scary!) and Grigory Kruzhkov (funny!), worried for Shimon HaTzaddik, baked some kisses, and visited the Boo!fest.
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Last week, Booknik read about spy’s adventures, a life in prison, Rabbi Eliazar, flying Timofey, and sexual revolution, walked through a museum of Art Deco, watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, sat on a lecture on Jewish Vienna, and chose what kind of a Jew he would have been 200 years ago. Meanwhile, Booknik Jr. admired Mikhail Botvinnik, was scared of Shibennik, munched on a cake, and learned how to talk to girls.
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Last week, Booknik remembered Abraham Sutzkever and J.D. Salinger, read books about coffee houses, equality of nations, and identity, looked after animals, sang Russian songs in Hebrew, visited a Soviet china exhibition, listened to tall tales on Ethiopia Street, watched Solomon Kane, got ready for Tu Bishvat, and celebrated it, turned into a student, learned five more words starting with an A, and fried bananas. Booknik Jr. was busy too, for he also celebrated Tu Bishvat, tamed a mole, was afraid of furry monsters, and took a walk in the Central Park.
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Last week, Booknik read a novel by Nick Cave, a biography of Maimonides, and a book about divorce. He also spoke to film director Pavel Lungin, remembered Serge Gainsbourg, counted out wasted time, sat at a lecture on Jewish Vienna, lost the Shard, watched The Girlfriend Experience and the School TV drama, inspected Yemen jewelry stores, and cooked an omelet. Booknik Jr. observed Sabbath, learned colors in Hebrew, and walked around aviation museums.
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Last week, Booknik roamed the Library of Afterlives, read about life in a kosher battalion, and the lives of Titus Flavius Josephus, Clarice Lispector, and a Frenchwoman in Japan, photographed the Basque Country, and Tel Aviv sculptures, watched The Men Who Stare at Goats, walked across Cyprus, cooked mashed-pea soup, and taught children to love reading. Meanwhile, Booknik Jr. oohed and aahed at Ezra the Scribe, cooked tzimmes, rooted for the Cat, and trained to become a super agent.
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Last week, Booknik read the monograph on Sabbath infringements, and stories by Cynthia Ozick, followed the lives of Man Ray, Robert Desnos, and the Maccabees, remembered the last year’s movies, chewed pita, turned himself into a Quatroceratops, counted a lot of numbers, learned words that start with an A, and met the tiger. Meanwhile, Booknik Jr. investigated a crime, built a house, watched a cartoon about a princess and a frog, and worried about Abraham.
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Last week, Booknik read about social microtrends, spoke in hexameter, talked to Boris Yukhananov, listened to tales of the poetry festival, gave out presents, asked a lot of questions about large felines, and reminisced about the year 2009. In the meantime, Booknik Jr. ate olives, read a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer and a fairy tale about seagulls, sewed a doll, listened to the radio, and looked at Cézanne. Both Bookniks, at the same time, would like to note that some people celebrated the new 2010.
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