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| | | | Welcome to the second year of the Bookish Books Reading Challenge, hosted right here at BBB by Yours Truly. I had such a grand time doing th... | |
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classicmystery.blog
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| | | | 77 year-old Mimi tends to keep herself to herself on Mackinac Island (i.e. a posh bit of Michigan) and her first thought when invited to neighbour Jane Ireland's extravagant auction party is not to go. But when the invite is accompanied by a blackmail letter, insisting she pays over the odds for something, else her... | |
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| | | | This month's #6Degrees, hosted by Kate from Books are my Favourite and Best starts with After Story by Larissa Behrendt of the Eualeyai/Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay people. It's a sophisticated and thoughtful novel which shows how universal experiences such as reading the English classics and making an overseas trip can have different resonances for First Nations people. See... | |
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| | Fiction - paperback; Picador; 436 pages; 2021. Colm Tóibín is one of my favourite writers, but The Magician didn't quite work for me. It's an account of the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), whose work - Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain et al - I've never read,... |