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ivebeenreadinglately.blogspot.com
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| | | | | I wrote this in late 2008 on spec for a publication, but it was never published. My notes remind me that after writing it I came across a po... | |
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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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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
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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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| | | 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... | ||
