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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; 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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| | | | | 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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katemacdonald.net
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| | | I've read all the Narnia novels many times, but since I don't have an entry for any of them in my book diary that means I haven't read them since 2008. This Christmas I plan to reread them all, and I finished The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe two nights ago. There was some... | ||
