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davidhblog.wordpress.com
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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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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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readingmattersblog.com
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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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fictionfanblog.wordpress.com
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| | | Provincial panorama :D :D :D :D :D On his way home from Edinburgh, antiquarian Jonathan Oldbuck of Monkbarns meets a young man, William Lovel, travelling in the same direction. They strike up a friendship and Oldbuck invites Lovel to Monkbarns and introduces him to his family and neighbours. One of the neighbours is Isabella Wardour, | ||
