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anzlitlovers.com
Inspired by Kim's 10 Books for Australian Music Month, I have trawled through my reviews and found ten fourteen Australian novels that feature music and musicians. Links on the titles go to my reviews. Facing the Music (1994) by Andrea Goldsmith. The title is a clever play on words, it's a novel about a composer... |
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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
Today it's time for a virtual cruise down the Moselle, possibly my favourite river in Germany. The reason ... Our dear God did not wish / that fine wine should go to waste. / Thus he gave not just the vine / also the requisite sense of taste. (Purists won't like that translation, but I... |
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tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com
Shusaku Endo is one of our recent additions to the J-Lit Giants hall of fame, and a well deserved one. I've enjoyed several of his books, and I've had this novel, highly recommended, on the shelves for a long time. Fortunately, it didn't disappoint...*****Deep River (translated by Van C. Gessel, published by New Directions) is |
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katemacdonald.net
Alexandra Harris, Weatherland Weatherland is really long, and took me over a week to slog through. She has taken the whole of English literature and pressed it lightly through a filter marked 'weather'. Good things emerge, but my quarrel is not with what she found, but the predictability of the works she looked at. Anglo-Saxons,... |
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