Posts Tagged ‘Spotlight’
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Books Related to the First World War
Books Related to the First World War Posted by guillermo maynez on 18/2/2014, 13:32:38 During the last couple of months I have been engaged in heavy reading about WWI, of which the first centenary will be commemorated around th...
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Father and Son – Edmund Gosse
Father and Son – Edmund Gosse – 1907 Posted by guillermo maynez on 8/9/2014, 13:24:38 “Father and Son”, by Edmund Gosse, has been the great discovery of this year. I understand that it is little remember...
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Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler – 1940 Posted by Steven on 10/7/2012, 14:03:47 A great story told with a lot of clever, dry wit. I was struck by the contrast with Red Harvest, both in the way society is pictu...
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The Empty Book – Josefina Vicens
The Empty Book – Josefina Vicens – 1992 Posted by Steven on 22/9/2012, 19:30:56 At this time last year Guillermo proposed a list of works by female Mexican authors. We eventually narrowed it to one: Recollections of...
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Emma – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen – 1815 Reviewed by: Gretchen Date: 6 January 2005 As with all of Jane Austen’s books, here are some lessons we could certainly learn even today. Despite its romantic overtones, it te...
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Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
Doomsday Book – Connie Willis – 1992 Cover of the Italian Edition Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 7/1/2013, 13:51:07 I’m about a third into “Doomsday Book” and enjoying it very much. But somet...
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Cousin Bazilio – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
Cousin Bazilio – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – 1878 Posted by guillermo maynez on 25/5/2015, 13:55:48 Has any of you read “Cousin Bazilio”, by Eca de Queiros? This Portuguese novel, set in Lisbon in the...
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Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson – 1748 Posted by Joffre on 6/8/2014, 11:41:31, in reply to “Clarissa” Harold Bloom has said he finds Clarissa second only to Don Quixote in aesthetic eminence. I don’t ...
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The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje – 2011 Posted by Steven on 16/4/2013, 22:35:54 I finished The Cat’s Table this evening. It’s a much more serious book than Skios, but short and easy to read. It i...
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Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel – 2012 Posted by Steven on 24/6/2012, 9:07:46, Bring Up the Bodies I finished the sequel to Wolf Hall yesterday, reading half of it in one day which should tell you how engrossing...
