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| | If I were to rank the books I've read during the lifetime of this blog (and there are over 500 of them) in order of enjoyment, Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal(2008) would be right at the top of the list. I bought it on a whim, knowing nothing about it; I was nearly put off by...
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| | 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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| | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior...
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| The edition of 1001 Books To Read Before You Die that I have is the Australian. The list below is the one kindly complied by the folk at List Challenges. The first edition of the book was the 2006 UK one edited by Dr. Peter Boxall, quickly followed by one published in the US. Updates