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Reading is not the Challenge: October 2016
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Reading is not the Challenge. An attempt to write about my reading. Blogging is the Challenge! 2017 World of Reading. 2016 World of Reading. 2015 World of Reading. 2014 World of Reading. Monday, October 31, 2016. October (second half) 2016 Reads. Continuing with the class (see my October 15, 2016 post) which is about half way through. And I finally finished. By Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translation), Tim Parks (Translation), Martin McLaughlin (Translation and Introduction). Women's voices (one ex-pa...
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Reading is not the Challenge: Housekeeping
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Reading is not the Challenge. An attempt to write about my reading. Blogging is the Challenge! 2017 World of Reading. 2016 World of Reading. 2015 World of Reading. 2014 World of Reading. Thursday, January 05, 2017. Two kinds of housekeeping today: Laundry and Blogging. The difficult part will be deciding how detailed to get. Mostly this is to help me find past posts. Do I want to do authors? That could be time consuming and the search box seems to be adequate for that. Just a general "challenges" label?
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Reading is not the Challenge: No Promises To Keep
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Reading is not the Challenge. An attempt to write about my reading. Blogging is the Challenge! 2017 World of Reading. 2016 World of Reading. 2015 World of Reading. 2014 World of Reading. Sunday, January 01, 2017. No Promises To Keep. As usual, I'm not making any New Year Resolutions, nor am I making any Best of 2016 lists. No challenges yet except for the Goodreads one which I set at 215 - one book more than I read in 2016. House: What a jumble- especially downstairs! Do something about it- yeah, right.
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Reading is not the Challenge: January 2016
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Reading is not the Challenge. An attempt to write about my reading. Blogging is the Challenge! 2017 World of Reading. 2016 World of Reading. 2015 World of Reading. 2014 World of Reading. Sunday, January 31, 2016. January (second half) 2016 Reads. Reading from my tbr stacks, plus a couple from the public library. In addition to these, I'm about halfway through The Good Soldier Švejk. By Jaroslav Hašek which I am reading because of an essay in The Art of Flight by Sergio Pitol. The 6:41 to Paris. Book desi...
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MG's German Lit Page: In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS
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MG's German Lit Page. Reading is Not the Challenge. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS. In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS. By Uwe Timm; Translated. From the German by Anthea Bell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, 150p. Originally published in 2003. By Kiepenheuer and Witschas. As Am Beispiel meines Bruders. Copy from local community college library. Writing about my brother means writing about my father too. My likeness to him can be. Timm's p...
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MG's German Lit Page: Flights of Love : Stories by Bernhard Schlink
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MG's German Lit Page. Reading is Not the Challenge. Friday, November 21, 2014. Flights of Love : Stories by Bernhard Schlink. Flights of Love : Stories. By Bernhard Schlink, Translated from German by John E. Woods. Pantheon, 2001, 320 pages. Originally published by Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich, in 2000 as Liebesfluchten : Geschichten). Copy from local public library. Girl with Lizard; A Little Fling; The Other Man; Sugar Peas; The Circumcision; The Son; The Woman at the Gas Station. A story of betrayal.
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MG's German Lit Page: Fall of the Wall
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MG's German Lit Page. Reading is Not the Challenge. Thursday, November 6, 2014. Fall of the Wall. In commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall (and the Iron Curtain), I am currently reading the Words Without Borders. Anthology The Wall in My Head. Which I read back in 1983 when it was first published in English. Nice to revisit one of my favorites. I am also working on writing up one of my own memories from the 1980s concerning a day in East Berlin. I'll try to complete it this month. Notes! Shorter D...
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Reading is not the Challenge: April 2016
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Reading is not the Challenge. An attempt to write about my reading. Blogging is the Challenge! 2017 World of Reading. 2016 World of Reading. 2015 World of Reading. 2014 World of Reading. Tuesday, April 19, 2016. April (first half) 2016 Reads. More non-fiction than usual for me this month. Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Rioux, Anne Boyd. A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power. OK, not...
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MG's German Lit Page: January 2015
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MG's German Lit Page. Reading is Not the Challenge. Sunday, January 4, 2015. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). M is a retired librarian who reads and, uh, reads. I post on Goodreads as M Gifford; on LibraryThing as seeword. View my complete profile. Awesome Inc. theme. Powered by Blogger.
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MG's German Lit Page. Reading is Not the Challenge. Sunday, January 4, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). M is a retired librarian who reads and, uh, reads. I post on Goodreads as M Gifford; on LibraryThing as seeword. View my complete profile. Awesome Inc. theme. Powered by Blogger.