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| | | | | In reading terms, I'm on track with 11 books read. A bit behind on the reviewing, only 5. So let's balance things up a little with a trio of quick reviews. One word provides the perfect summary of my response to Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and that is .... Hmmmm. A marmite novel if ever there... | |
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| | | | | I really enjoy a good novella, one-sitting stories. One writing style that seems to particularly suit novellas is a story told in vignettes - each section a paragraph or two, at most a couple... | |
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| | | | | I was really pleased to learn that Han Kang had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday. She has become one of my favourite writers that I've discovered during the lifetime of th... | |
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| | | Translated from German by Basil Creighton The success of Grand Hotel (published 1929) enabled Vicki Baum, who saw what was coming to Europe, to move her family permanently to Hollywood in 1932. Thus she was free to roam the world, when even Hollywood became too claustrophobic. ("Fifty people were using my toothbrush", was how she... | ||