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"Mr. Jones" is Agnieszka Holland's film about the Ukrainian famine, the Holodomor. It's a story of one man's bravery and another man's cruelty. James Norton plays Gareth Jones, a young Welsh journalist, extremely focused and powerfully. #Holodomor theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/…

Доброй рано, dear friends. Recently, my poem "Red Push Pins," a response to the war, appeared in Second Coming:secondcoming.substack.com/p/906ee3fc-8fa…. Lyudmila Khersonsky & @serhiy_zhadan inspired this poem in the summer of 2022. It took three years for it to find a home. Please don't forget 🇺🇦

"Fairy tales don't teach children that monsters exist--they already know that they do. Instead, fairy tales teach children that monsters can be defeated." G. K. Chesterton

Terrorist state russia aims to steal Ukraine's future by destroying our national identity, language, culture, and literature.

Inside the Amber shop in Klaipeda. 🌊

#GrimLitFriday Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The Birds Daphne du Maurier

englishpen.org/posts/news/pen… Delighted to be able to announce my third PEN award and my first but hopefully not my last with @dedalusbooks for an anthology of Ukrainian women writers.

#BookologyThursday The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. Contact Carl Sagan

#BookChatWeekly She read books as one would breathe air; to fill up and live. Annie Dillard, The Living 🎨Girl Reading Helene Schjerfbeck (1904)

#thicktrunktuesday Through thy leaves come whispering low Faint sweet sounds of long ago. Willow, sighing willow! Many of swan-like song to thee Hath been sung, thou gentle tree! Therefore, wave and murmur on! Willow song Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

#ClassicLitMonday When the wood's light daughter celebrated her wedding - the forests dropped their seeds into human hearts the glittering lakes swam in human eyes and the white butterflies fluttered ceaselessly by. The Wood's Light Daughter Edith Södergran Transl. David McDuff

A beautiful Ukrainian novel of obsessive love set in the 1920s which explores what it means to love, and the yearning of a young woman to transcend the role society has allocated her.

#FolkloreSunday What a happy existence he spent in his gently swaying cradle castle There a little squirrel reclined in the mothering fir-tree's bosom, the song of the forest rang clear around. Song about the Squirrel Aleksis Kivi Translated by Andrew Bentley

The Rasmus today in Kyiv Respect to the musicians who support Ukraine and are not afraid to come to Ukraine and give concerts during the war to raise Ukrainian morale. Thank you.

The Rasmus musicians did not limit themselves to a concert in Kyiv. They visited the memorial to Ukrainian defenders who died in the war, and also came to the Okhmatdyt children's hospital, which Russia targeted with a missile. Much respect to them and Thank you!

Chiemseetour Mit etwas Glück kam man den Raddampfer "Ludwig Fessler" sehen. An den vielen Seerosen im Kanal vorbei, geht es auf das Schloss zu. Fortsetzung folgt #photography #Chiemsee #Bavaria #Germany

It is a great honor for me to lead the Government of Ukraine today. Our Government sets its course toward a Ukraine that stands firm on its own foundations — military, economic, and social. My key goal is real, positive results that every Ukrainian will feel in daily life. War…

#GrimLitFriday Into that silence came the Voice. Without warning, inhuman, penetrading. "Ladies and gentlemen! Silence please! You are charged with the following indictments:..." And Then There Were None Agatha Christie

#BookologyThursday In Finnish mythology, the bear (Karhu, Otso, Ohto, Kontio, Mesikämmen...) is a sacred animal. It is the king of the forest, very powerful entity that commands respect and fear. The bear is considered the national animal of Finland. Bear Emil Wikström (1918)

Klaipeda, most Western and mysterious city of Lithuania. It has everything: quaint old town, sandy beaches where you can watch the ships go by, bustling port. 🌊

#BookChatWeekly The library will endure; it is the universe. We walk the corridors...reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and the thoughts of others, glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information. Jorge Luis Borges