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MG's French Lit Page: A Palace in the Old Village
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MG's French Lit Page. Reading is Not the Challenge. Saturday, January 10, 2015. A Palace in the Old Village. A Palace in the Old Village. By Tahar Ben Jelloun, Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale,. Penguin Books, 2011. Paperback, 192 Pages. Mohammed, a Moroccan worker who has spent forty years working in a French automobile plant, faces mandatory retirement. He decides to return with his wife to his village and build a grand house where he can stage a family reunion. An interview with the author.
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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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MG's French Lit Page: Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye
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MG's French Lit Page. Reading is Not the Challenge. Thursday, January 22, 2015. Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye. By Marie NDiaye,. Translated by Jordan Stump. Two Lines Press, 2014, 164 pages, paperback. Personal copy received as part of subscription to Two Lines Press. Shortly after I finished reading this book, I checked my Twitter feed and was led to the J. Paul Getty Pinterest gallery of Museum Selfies. A collection of artist's self-portraits. What is a self-portrait? Never looking straight ah...
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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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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 French Lit Page: February 2015
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MG's French Lit Page. Reading is Not the Challenge. Saturday, February 7, 2015. A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2014. I received a free copy of the finished book through a blog win at France Book Tours. The historic story involves Marthe de Florian a courtesan of Belle Époque. My problem was the way the two stories were connected. The presentation of April's reading of the diary entries at times seems out of sequence and choppy. At times I felt that it ...I'll ...
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Reading is not the Challenge: July 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, July 31, 2016. August (first half) 2016 Reads. Starting off August by trying to finish several in my "currently reading" list :. Rock, Paper, Scissors. Aidt, Naja Marie on page 109. What If the Queen Should Die? Flintoff, John-Paul on page 131. McGuire, Ian on page 56. 10pm, Aug 1. 5pm, Aug 2. 3pm, Aug 5. By Lawr...
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Reading is not the Challenge: Deal Me In 2017-Roster
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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, January 02, 2017. Deal Me In 2017-Roster. Just yesterday I posted that I wouldn't do any additional challenges beyond the Goodreads one. But I just found this one which sounds like fun and it's right up my alley. 8220;Deal Me In 2017! Goal: Read 52 short stories in 2017, piece of cake for me- but there is a twist!