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2012 Reading Challenge | JoV's Book Pyramid
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JoV's Book Pyramid. Books is my addiction, I seek no cure. A to Z Index by Author. 1001 books you must read before you die. BBC Top 100 Big Read. Man Booker Prize List. A Five-Year Challenge: The Classics Club. All challenges run from J anuary 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012. Challenge 1: TBR challenges in different guises. Unread Book Challenge 2012. So that’s what I wanted to do. For Off the shelf challenge. I’ll be aiming for 30 books to read. At Christmas day 2011, I have 240. The Bird Song –...
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in lieu of a field guide: Monosyllabic snails
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In lieu of a field guide. May 1, 2015. In an essay in Campo Santo. 2003), a posthumous collection of prose writings, W. G. Sebald provided a critical review of From the Diary of a Snail. 1974) by Günter Grass. The critique in "Constructs of Mourning: Günter Grass and Wolfgang Hildesheimer" was consistent to Sebald's championing of factual context in fiction, instead of unsupported imagination, to deal with episodes of the war and war bombings. Grass died less than a month ago at the age of 87. One. From ...
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in lieu of a field guide: Pesoa
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In lieu of a field guide. January 30, 2015. By Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (Balangay Books, 2014). The spelling of the title was not wrong. Pesoa. A letter subtracted was a new word gained. The poet Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles was a connoisseur of found meanings. His latest collection featured what was called " blackout poetry. Or "poetry of subtraction" or " erasures. At nakakabasa. Habang. Kaharap ko siya,. Nakakaharap ko rin ang. Aking sarili: na kung. I am not certain. If she can read. The poet's (or...
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in lieu of a field guide: Two paintings by Caravaggio in Saint John's Co-Cathedral
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In lieu of a field guide. April 30, 2015. Two paintings by Caravaggio in Saint John's Co-Cathedral. I visited the island state of Malta during the last week of March to attend a meeting on biosphere reserves organized by UNESCO and the national committees of Jeju and Menorca Biosphere Reserves. On the third day of the conference, we had a chance to cross over by ferry to Gozo Island until lunchtime, and later, to go around the capital city of Valletta. By close to 300 years. Writ from the blood that flow...
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Writers | Gert Loveday's Fun with Books
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Gert Loveday's Fun with Books. Book reviews, poetry and all kinds of literary fun. Enter the name into the search box to find all related posts on:. Mark Abley Rabih Alameddine Jonathan Ames V.C. Andrews. Nicholson Baker John Banville Muriel Barbery Nicola Barker Mira Bartok. Pierre Bayard Beachcomber (J.B. Morton) Lucia Berlin Mary Biffy. Parker Bilal Anne Billson Nesta Bird Emily Bitto. William Blake Jean-Philippe Blondel Carys Bray Jesse Browner. Ceridwen Dovey Lawrie Duggan Lena Dunham Helen Dunmore.
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gertloveday | Gert Loveday's Fun with Books
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Gert Loveday's Fun with Books. Book reviews, poetry and all kinds of literary fun. All posts by gertloveday. Alison Lurie: Foreign Affairs. November 2, 2016. Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs. Continue reading Alison Lurie: Foreign Affairs. View all 13 comments. The doctor will see you now. Continue reading The doctor will see you now. Chat on November 2, 2016. Exremely loud and incredibly close. October 30, 2016. Continue reading Exremely loud and incredibly close. View all 9 comments. October 26, 2016.
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six words for a hat: cartwheeling and bouncing
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Six words for a hat. The blog of scott gf bailey. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS. THE ASTROLOGER: A NOVEL (2013). Friday, May 22, 2015. I continue to read Chaucer. Yes, Geoffrey, I get it: men are violently jealous and women are unfaithful. Find another tune to sing, please. I have read four hundred pages of this, with almost another hundred remaining. I have Chaucer fatigue, possibly. Not related to reading or writing, I guess, is the discovery of the so-called "fear of missing out" phenomenon, FOMO. I have been m...
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Jean-Christophe Grangé ‘La Ligne Noire’ – South of Paris books
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South of Paris books. Reviews of books read in French,English or even German. Choosing books, changing habits. Choosing Books, Changing Habits 2. Food for reading groups. Preview of the start to the French Literary Season. English Lit targets for 2016. French Lit targets for 2016. German lit target for 2016. Italian Lit targets for 2016. Eliette Abécassis ‘Une Affaire Conjugale’. Vincent Almendros ‘Un Été’. Nathalie Azoulai ‘Titus n’aimait pas Bérénice’. Michel Bussi ‘N’Oublier Jamais’. Laura Lippman ...
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six words for a hat: 2 August, 2012: a woman in a shimmering dress
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Six words for a hat. The blog of scott gf bailey. My courage fails me, therefore, at the thought of rising up as a prophet before my fellow-men,. And I bow to their reproach that I have no consolation to offer them. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS. THE ASTROLOGER: A NOVEL (2013). Sunday, August 2, 2015. 2 August, 2012: a woman in a shimmering dress. August 2nd, 2012 is the day upon which I wrote the first page of the first draft of the novel I call Mona in the Desert. But who cares about my mood swings? Some people ...
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six words for a hat: February 2015
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Six words for a hat. The blog of scott gf bailey. My courage fails me, therefore, at the thought of rising up as a prophet before my fellow-men,. And I bow to their reproach that I have no consolation to offer them. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS. THE ASTROLOGER: A NOVEL (2013). Thursday, February 26, 2015. A terrifying black horse which the driver of the soul can never hope entirely to understand or subdue. Thomas Gould, "Aristotle and the Irrational," Arion. Vol 2, No 2, Summer 1963 (pg 64). Links to this post.
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