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Books, audiobooks, and references to them.

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We present to you a short but extremely fascinating interview in which Mr. Andrzej Sapkowski tells us about his particular way of working on novels. For the translation from Polish we thank our tireless translator Anna Liri.

#Ведьмак #АнджейСапковский #Интервью #Witcher #МирыАнджеяСапковского

Enthusiast narrators are no worse than professionals… And to misread “The Wild Hunt” in The Witcher as “The Wild Gnome”, you really have to make an effort 😂 (the Russian pun is “Dikiy gon” / “Dikiy gnom” — “Wild Hunt” / “Wild Gnome”.)

Finished reading the “36 Lessons of Vivec”. It was something I needed to do at some point. And the end of these words is ALMSIVI :)

And today, in our three-month Transfiguration lesson, we will turn butter into blue cheese.

Just a reminder, I’m in Ozinki. Here snakes crawl under my skirting boards. I’m already looking for the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in the washbasin!

Now I’m listening to the audiobook of “Twilight”. I’ll be damned! By irony of fate, it was the one that ended up in my hands.

…a countless and ever-growing number of slaves performed all the work that free, hard-working citizens had done before. All this killed labor — the most powerful source of strength, morality and prosperity…

— Raffaello Giovagnoli, “Spartacus”, On the Decline of Rome

Reading “Spartacus” by Raffaello Giovagnoli. A novel about a slave uprising can give new plot ideas for an evolving game project.