More #cafe #culture #photography in #Lebanon #iPhone. This shop mixes old Lebanese promotional motifs shaped in neon lights, with a modern choice of bold colors. It’s on the #Jbeil coastal road

Still #reading #JanuaryinJapan with @readjapaneseliterature.com The Wild Goose by Ogai Mori from the charming Olea in Jounieh, #Lebanon #photography #iPhone #urban

The view from a #coffee shop. The flash popped up by mistake and I liked the reflection. #Reading Shoen Nakajima’s “ A Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion “ with @readjapaneseliterature.com during #JanuaryInJapan. #Photography #Urban #VSCO

Kazuki Kaneshiro grew up in a Zainichi Korean household in Japan affiliated with North Korea; his family later opted for South Korean citizenship. He wrote Go, his only novel translated into English, in just two weeks. It won the Naoki Prize in 2000. Today, he's better known as a screenwriter.

Electric cables corrupting #Beirut, #Lebanon #Urban #Photography #iPhone #VSCO

The city of #Jounieh, #Lebanon has been witnessing some renovations as can be seen from this renovated old house. #Photography #Urban #iPhone

Reminiscing about finer days. #photography #nature #lebanon

Sunlight after the storm: view from my living room in Ghineh, #Lebanon. #photography #landscape

Random morning walk in Ghineh, #Lebanon #photography #landscape

Late December clouds over the North coastal road, Lebanon. #photography #iphone #sunset

Stillness. Lebanon. #photography #landscape #quietplaces

I’ve just published a reflection on reading Václav Havel’s Open Letters — not the politician, but the writer thinking through responsibility, language, and dissent under totalitarianism. #VáclavHavel #CentralEurope #PoliticalEssays tabadoul.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/v...

#first #flashes post. #Riga #latvia #iphone #photography #reflection

Sunday spent in the company of #Czech #literature #reading #havel #kundera

#reading #japan #literature Kobo Abe - Secret Rendezvous

Marek Hłasko - Beautiful TwentySomethings #Polish #Literature #bookreview

Herbert Clyde Lewis is now being discovered by readers around the world for his 1937 classic, Gentleman Overboard. His 1941 novel, Season's Greetings, follows residents of Mrs. Fanjoy's Greenwich Village rooming house through the afternoon and evening of Christmas Eve 1940. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Word of the day is ‘bellycheer’ (16th century): feasting, gluttony, and ‘the gratification of the belly’.

#booksky #Massolit Books & Café in #krakow. Such a beautiful #bookstore and it was beautiful talking to the librarian about Polish & Eastern European #literature Very good selection of Polish books in English, esp now at Christmas

#firstpost #booksky Marek Hłasko Twentysomethings #polish #literature