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swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.com
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| | | | | "But, my friends, let me digress for a moment, and forgive me for keeping you here: I wish today that we were still the old grains of dust! Our lives were ordered not by laws but by whims." My final entry for German Literature Month is Joseph Roth's Confession of a Murderer. The tale of... | |
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| | | | | The papers are already full of the books of 2009. That's far too soon for me as I have a lot of reading left to do. PlusI won't belimiting the selection ofmy best books of 2009 to those published this year. What I can do,however,is produceLizzy's Best Fiction of the Noughties. Not such a difficult... | |
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| | | | | In a literary series, it's always a pleasure to revisit much loved characters and to see how their lives have progressed. Phineas Redux is volume 4 in the Palliser series. We first met Phineas in volume 2 of the series: Phineas Finn; he's a young, energetic Irish lawyer who sets his sights on a political... | |
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katemacdonald.net
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| | | 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,... | ||
