#trainreading

This weeks travel companion has been rather wonderful. .
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#BeforeTheCoffeeGetsCold #ToshikazuKawaguchi #Bookstagram #TravellingBookseller #TrainReading
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New book = Train reading.
Homeward bound.
Early start/long day.
Time to relax #coversationswithfriends #londonday #newbook #trainreading #downtime #sallyrooney #getlostinabook
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Rt1-1HC3d/?igshid=d4rl8gdqkfuk

🚂 to London: reading material.
#thereluctantfundamentalist #mohsinhamid #trainreading #getlostinabook #london #currentlyreading
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#trainreading #thehappynews #scribble #goodnews #timeforreading
Train journey = quiet reading time.
Eve has basically defaced my (unread) Happy News - she was playing ‘school’ last night with it & this must have been been her teaching material! 😂💜
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Bunyi Sunyi

Sunyi. Apatah ada, suara lain, seindah kesunyian? Sunyi tidak butuh suara untuk bisa jadi irama. Sunyi menyusun nada di daun telinga. Manusia mencerna alunannya, menciptakan lagunya.
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Sunyi, adalah komoditi paling langka. Boleh jadi, ia yang paling dicari hari ini. Paling tidak, bagi mereka yang sudah bosan dengan bising bunyi mesin industri, klakson berisik segala transportasi, janji manis politisi ingkar janji.
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Di bangku ujung kanan, kurang satu saja sampai ke belakang. Terlintas dalam benak si kakek, ingatan tentang zaman. Zaman hitam putih, di mana manusia tertawa bahagia, cukup karena memakai mata. Tak perlu dengar banyak kata.
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Graham Bell, sempat membuat dunia si kakek penuh suara. Namun, hari- hari itu tidak berlangsung lama. Manusia yang tadinya mengikat telepon karena berisik, hari ini kebalikannya. Telepon-lah yang mengikat manusia. Mungkin karena alasan yang sama.
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Kakek sesekali memutar pena. Memikirkan dawuh dokter tentang kadar gulanya. “Note” kecil, seperti biasa di pangkuannya. Dari balik kaca, pandangannya menjelajah trotoar asrama. Mencari- cari lagu yang dapat dituliskannya.
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Seorang pemuda paruh baya, memaki- maki tembok, kiranya. Praduganya ternyata bersalah. Pemuda itu sedang memarahi sesosok di dunia maya. Absahlah tesisnya, tentang manusia yang terikat oleh telepon genggamnya.
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Marahnya itu berisik. Semakin tinggi frekuensi suaranya, semakin memanas, musim panas dibuatnya. Ikhtisar-nya satu melihat yang itu; ia tumpahkan kesannya itu, di catatan kecilnya. Kala suasana kereta mulai sepi, ia goreskan beberapa susun kata:
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“Kamu akan jatuh hati pada kereta. Cepat atau lambat kamu akan menyadarinya; bahwa kereta terkadang terasa lebih ‘rumah’ ketimbang rumahmu sendiri”. Di sana, ia tidak mengenal siapa-siapa. Ia tidak perlu berlakon sayang, pura-pura.
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“Musik ada di mana- mana. Yang perlu manusia lakukan, hanyalah memasang telinga”, begitu tulis si kakek. “Tak terkecuali di kereta, lagu manusia ragam banyak iramanya. Namun sulit rasanya untuk diterka, apabila sunyi tidak mengeluarkan bunyinya.”

#trainread#trainreading#silent

📷 Yasmeen Asim (di مدينه نصر)
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Time to reread my own book. Gotta write some connective material for new French edition ( @editions_actusf ). And anyway, people keep telling me it’s good.
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#swordspoint #trainreading #trainreads #authorsofinstagram #amtrak
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#onthetrain #trainreading #trainwriting (at Lodi Vecchio)

▪️A sad story about a bird▪️
#onthetrain #poems #trainreading (at Bologna, Italy)

Finally managed to get my hands on #obsidio 😍 Excited to see how the #illuminaefiles will end (tho I’m also sad it’s the last book). @amiekaufmanauthor @misterkristoff #bookstagram #bookworm #finalbook #hopemyfaveswontdie #trainreading #coffeetime (at Berlin, Germany)

@rickriordan #bigredtequila #trainreading #lenseflare @metrolink #onmyway #disneyland (at Orange, California)

Fresh from the storage boxes, today’s train book is Rumer Godden’s China Court. #books #trainreading #tbr #bookstagram #readersofinstagram

I’m just a tad obsessed with the show so I thought I’d give the books a read and I’m completely engrossed 😊📚 #The100 #The100Book #KassMorgan #BookNerd #TrainReading #LoveBooks (at Ruskington)

This intimate tale of the hopes and struggles of one family has been left on the train bound for Barrie. We hope you find this advance readers copy by award winning author Jesmyn Ward, and tell us your thoughts! #singunburiedsing #jesmynward #trainreading #gotransit (at Union Station)

Take a look around the staircase leading to Platforms 10-13 for @sophiekinsellawriter Shopaholic Takes Manhattan! If you’re looking for an addictive read about a spunky and resilient character, you’re in luck #gotrain #commuters! #booksonthetransit #booksonthemove #booksonthemoveglobal #gotransit #gotrain #gocommute #trainreading #transitreading #commuterreads #amreading #chicklit #shopaholic #manhattan #torontoig #torontolife #dailyhiveto #letsread #summer #summerreads #subwayreading #toronto #the6ix #the6 #sophiekinsella #hotreads #metrolinx (at Union Station)

Joy Fielding’s “Now You See Her” is awaiting a reader deep underground. If you find this thrilling read, let us know!
#booksonthetransit #commute #bookrecs #amreading #unionstation #subwayreading #trainreading #toronto #torontoig #torontolife #torontoreads #the6 #the6ix #commuters #readandride #readingisfun #readingiscool #booknow #bookstagram #instabooks #instagood #bookish #gotransit #gotrain #gocommute #ttc #ttccommunity (at Union Station)

#currentlyreading!
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#trainreads I guess. This one will be keeping me company on my way to NYC. Where I’ll be for like 24 hours this time. This time for a book event! (For the prequel to the Strangely Beauitful series by Leanna Renee Hieber. In a haunted mansion. Perfect).

#amreading #trainreading #train #bookevent #reading #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #books

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Boy Who Lived #HarryPotter #HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone #TheBoyWhoLived #20thAnniversaryEdition #Gryffindor #JKRowling #HogwartsIsMyHome #Potterhead #20YearsOfHarryPotterMagic #CourageBraveryDetermination #Bloomsbury #TrainReading (at Sleaford railway station)

On the train to Dublin and I thought I’d start An Ember in the Ashes by @sabaatahir #anemberintheashes #sabaatahir #amreading #currentread #currentlyreading #trainreading #bookstagram #bookworm (at County Armagh)

Reading this brilliant book by @richardnugent on my journey into work makes me happy 💛 #BrainFood #BookWorm #SelfDevelopment #SelfConfidence #TrainReading

A good read 📖💃🏻✨#avindicationoftherightsofwoman #marywollstonecraft #earlyfeminism #books #trainreading