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Madame de ___ by Louise de Vilmorin (tr. Duff Cooper) | JacquiWine's Journal
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Mostly books, with a little wine writing on the side. A-Z Index of Book Reviews. My Reading List for The Classics Club. Jean Rhys Reading Week. Books of the Year. Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin (tr. Duff Cooper). While looking through my shelves for suitable books for Women in Translation month. I found Louise de Vilmorin’s novella. It’s a perfect one-sitting read, short enough to squeeze into a spare hour or two. Despite being published in 1951,. Reads like a classic 19. Believe the jeweller when he fl...
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Kate Vane | Kate Vane
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Author Archives: Kate Vane. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. March 8, 2017. In The Undoing Project. Michael Lewis explains how psychologists Kahneman and Frederickson demonstrated the peak-end rule. 8211; that when we remember an experience we give undue prominence to how it ends. And that’s why I’m probably going to be more critical of this book than it deserves. How would I cope? How can they possibly get out of this? View Before the Fall on Goodreads.
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Bii's Books: October 2014
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A blog for everything bookish. Saturday, 25 October 2014. Reading Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room. Jacob’s Room follows the early life of a promising young man. Jacob Flanders is a man with a mind, with potential, but he is also a man with a future that never comes off. We follow Jacob from a childhood holiday in Cornwall, to his early life in Scarborough, to his time in university, to a trip across Greece and Italy, to his eventual (though practically unmentioned) end. Certainly her work has a movie-esque ...
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Bii's Books: September 2014
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A blog for everything bookish. Sunday, 28 September 2014. Reading Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out. As Woolf describes it), is passionate about music, and leads a thoroughly directionless life. Is this Terence talking, or Woolf? The Voyage Out receives an introductory 8 out of 10 Biis. Wednesday, 24 September 2014. Thoughts on reading women for 2014. So what did happen? Reading women has been a joyful experience. I have, now, in my sights a catalogue of amazing male writers and equally amazing female w...
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Talking Italian | Annie Holmes
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Meike Ziervogel and I presented at the Babel Festival. Of Literature in Translation, held in the galleried Teatro Sociale of Bellinzona, Switzerland in September 2016. Like its print offspring, Specimen Press. Babel is the creation of director and poet Vanni Bianconi. In London as a Second Language. Specimen and Adania Shibli. The Babel team translated a section of the. Available in Italian, but people bought respectable numbers of the English version and brought them for signing and discussion. I still ...
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The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov (review) | JacquiWine's Journal
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Mostly books, with a little wine writing on the side. A-Z Index of Book Reviews. My Reading List for The Classics Club. Jean Rhys Reading Week. Books of the Year. The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov (review). By Hamid Ismailov (tr. by Andrew Bromfield) is the first novella in Peirene Press’s. Series, and having now read the full set, I think it’s my favourite of the three. (You can read my thoughts on the other two here:. Under the Tripoli Sky. Ismailov captures the stark beauty of the Kazakh landscape so ef...
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Bii's Books: The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho (translator Nobuyuki Yuasa)
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A blog for everything bookish. Sunday, 24 May 2015. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho (translator Nobuyuki Yuasa). No, not that. Narrow Road to the Deep North, the ubiquitous Booker winning novel by Richard Flanagan gracing every shelf of every bookshop at the moment, but the original travel sketches by 17. Century haiku master Matsuo Basho. He of the sublime poetry. That one. In the utter silence. Of a temple,. A cicada’s voice alone. It may be narrow –. Trying ...
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Catriona Troth: the Library Cat: April 2014
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Catriona Troth: the Library Cat. Books By Catriona Troth. The Ghost Town Interviews. Tuesday, 22 April 2014. Exploring Human Rights Through Poetry. After that slam, we kept in touch, and last year I interviewed Laila about the launch of In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights. This unique anthology, rooted in an open call for submissions brings together poets from 18 countries, representing a total 38 different heritages. When I learnt that Laila was running Human Rights themed poetry workshops, I knew it...
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Catriona Troth: the Library Cat: My Debt to Klee Wick
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Catriona Troth: the Library Cat. Books By Catriona Troth. The Ghost Town Interviews. Friday, 16 January 2015. My Debt to Klee Wick. The Dulwich Gallery in south east London is currently hosting to an exhibition called From the Forest to the Sea,. The art of Emily Carr. Early on in her career, she acquired the nickname Klee Wick, or Laughing One from the Noo-cha-Noolth people of Vancouver island, with whom she communicated largely by way of smiles and gestures. This is an exhibition I can recommend anyone...
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Catriona Troth: the Library Cat: Make Your Own Indie Author Fair
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Catriona Troth: the Library Cat. Books By Catriona Troth. The Ghost Town Interviews. Tuesday, 9 December 2014. Make Your Own Indie Author Fair. 8220;What about a fair? For indie authors.”. 8220;There’s a thought. We could have a pop-up bookshop.”. 8220;Yes, that should be easy enough to organise.”. With the support of The Alliance of Independent Authors(ALLi). But easy to organise? Here we present our beginners’ guide. Instructions for Your Own Indie Author Fair. Start a long way in advance. It takes...