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the stay at home bookworm: "O Comboio Nocturno para Lisboa" - Pascal Mercier

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The stay at home bookworm. Monday, February 06, 2012. O Comboio Nocturno para Lisboa" - Pascal Mercier. Not much going on as far as reading is concerned. Read "O Comboio Nocturno para Lisboa"(Night Train to Lisbon) as the year ended and Pascal Mercier's prose seems to have spoiled more mundane readings for me. A visit to a book store puts a mysterious vanity press book into the hands of Gregorius: long winded meditations on several topics by a Portuguese physician who lived through the years of Salazar's...

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the stay at home bookworm: Where the Wild things are

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The stay at home bookworm. Monday, August 17, 2009. Where the Wild things are. Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Search of a New Species - Sy Montgomery. Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind - David Quammen. Spell of the Tiger: Man-Eaters of the Sundarbans - Sy Montgomery. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Waiting To Be Read. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves. CUÍCA DODECAFÓNICA - My Husband's Blog (In Portuguese).

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the stay at home bookworm: Tracks - Robyn Davidson

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The stay at home bookworm. Sunday, February 23, 2014. Tracks - Robyn Davidson. There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns - small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence - and lasted about ten seconds.". From the Postscript (2012):.

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the stay at home bookworm: Clare Turlay Newberry

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The stay at home bookworm. Thursday, February 09, 2012. Clare Turlay Newberry(1903-1970) is a wonderful artist I recently discovered. She became famous for her cat illustrations and TIME Magazine once said she was "the best cat artist since the Egyptians". Funnily enough I had first, without knowing, admired her art in this awesome tattoo featured on the pet site Pawesome. Then, when I got the book "Mittens" it took me a few days to realize where I had seen that kitten before. My mother, Clare Turlay New...

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the stay at home bookworm: "Paradise Under Glass" - Ruth Kassinger

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The stay at home bookworm. Wednesday, April 04, 2012. Paradise Under Glass" - Ruth Kassinger. Paradise Under Glass: The Education of a Indoor Gardener. Ruth Kassinger's book centers around the project of building a conservatory in her home. The author wasn't really a gardener to begin with: in fact she starts the book off by explaining her difficulty in taking care potted plants over the years. I wanted very much to love "Paradise Under Glass". After all, I've always had a thing for conservatories my...

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the stay at home bookworm: A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

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The stay at home bookworm. Sunday, February 23, 2014. A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Waiting To Be Read. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves. Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis. Notebooks from New Guinea: Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist. CUÍCA DODECAFÓNICA - My Husband's Blog (In Portuguese). Chin: Live Recordings (Casa da Música, 2016). Lisboa em Disco - Our Fun Blog - Lisbon seen through record covers.

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the stay at home bookworm: Amazonian Expeditions OR Why I could never be a biologist

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The stay at home bookworm. Thursday, May 21, 2009. Amazonian Expeditions OR Why I could never be a biologist. Journey of the Pink Dolphins - Sy Montgomery. A Parrot without a Name - Don Stap. At one point in Sy Montgomery’s expedition in the Amazon it seems as if every other hut on the river is inhabited by a grad student. Scary. Some tag turtles, some count fish, some get bored out of their mind and others get sick (has a ring to it, doesn’t it? Nannopsittaca dachilleae) finally became a recognized spec...

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the stay at home bookworm: Pets, Exhibits, Symbols

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The stay at home bookworm. Tuesday, April 07, 2009. Pets, Exhibits, Symbols. Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots – Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris - Louise E. Robbins. New Worlds, New Animals – From Menagerie to Zoological Park in Nineteenth Century - Edited by J. R. Hoage and William A. Deiss. Of course, we humans tend to place meaning on just about anything and animals are prime subjects. The way in which we portray (or distort) them to fit any ideology is politic philosophy at its most...

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the stay at home bookworm: "Somewhere Towards the End" Diana Athill

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The stay at home bookworm. Thursday, October 20, 2011. Somewhere Towards the End" Diana Athill. What’s it like being an old woman? As soon as I realized Athill was a non god-fearing, childless woman I became more interested in her views on old age: don’t we end our days clutching rosaries and cursing our decision not to procreate? What is a woman’s life without faith and babies (and faith in babies)? I also appreciated that Athill isn’t one of those (hypocrites? Who claim that you should just stop whinin...

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the stay at home bookworm: Cecil Aldin

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The stay at home bookworm. Tuesday, February 07, 2012. Just recently I found out about two great artists. One is Cecil Aldin. 1870-1935) a visual chronicler of British countryside whose dog portraits became very famous and highly collectible. A very nice biography of Aldin can be found here. His drawings of Sealyham Terriers are my absolute favourite. There aren't any on these three books but there are some prints available online if a little on the expensive side. An adorable breed - how incredi...CUÍCA...