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www.blogginboutbooks.com
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| | | | | What are you like when it comes to hype surrounding new books? Do you give into it for fear of missing out on a title "everyone" seems to be... | |
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www.davidsbookworld.com
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| | | | | I don't know why it happened, but there were times this year when I just fell out of the habit of reading. This is not what I want, and my aim for 2024 is to find my way back in - with this s... | |
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swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.com
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| | | | | "I must not wish my life away," she told herself. Elizabeth Taylor's novel, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is an exploration of old age, loneliness and impending death. The focus of the novel is Mrs. Palfrey and her tedious life as one of a handful of elderly residents at a fading hotel. Mrs. Palfrey, facing... | |
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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... | ||
