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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
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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... | |
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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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readingmattersblog.com
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... | |
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katemacdonald.net
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| | | My TBR (To Be Read) stack of books has a system. I buy a book: it gets inserted on the left of the small library bookshelf on the bedroom floor. The next book I'm going to read is taken from the right. And the overflow is a pile on the floor (photographed here on the... | ||
