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Today I will review Hotel Silence , a novel by Icelandic author  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir . Regular readers of my blog might remember that I read another book by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir y , back in August. You can read my review for Ava's novel The Greenhouse here .  The Greenhouse was my first novel by this author and Hotel Silence my second. I do plan to read more of this author. Anyhow, I read Hotel Silence  last month. I found it on a shelf dedicated to Icelandic literature in my local library. I keep seeing Icelandic authors in Croatian libraries, so I know I'm not the only one who is interested in reading more Icelandic literature. So far, I have bought a few books by  contemporary  Icelandic writers and I also pick them up in libraries. It's wnderful. Croatian translations are available. I often make the mistake of looking for translations in English and forget there so many translated works available in my mother tongue. Speaking of translations,  ...

 Today I will review Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners , a legendary novel by Gustave Flaubert.    I can hardly believe I didn't read this classic before, being a lover of realism since my teens, but fortunately it is never too late to read and enjoy a fine book. A good book is like good wine, it only gets better with time. Naturally, I was more than familiar with the story of Madame Bovary . I'm sure many people are familiar with the plot of this famous novel, even if they haven't read it themselves.  I studied literature so I read about it on a number of occasions. There is hardly a textbook that doesn't reference this great novel. I'm sure there are whole passages of Madame Bovary that I read before I picked up this novel. I even remember reading quotes from in on pages of other bloggers. However, knowing the plot of this novel (or hearing it quoted) didn't ruin this book for me. Once I started reading this book, I found myself immediately drawn to the writ...