Posts Tagged ‘book reviews’
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Snow Country- Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata – 1935 Posted by Ladypurple on 29/12/2005, 4:48:29 Hi all, In preparation for the discussion of Snow Country, here is the link to an interesting website on Kawabata and Snow Count...
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The Man Who Was Thursday- G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday – G. K. Chesterton – 1908 Chesterton Quotes – Posted by Lale on 19/12/2005, 11:26:08 A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. A good novel tells us ...
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İnce Memed / Memed My Hawk / Mèmed le mince / Memed mein Falke-Yaşar Kemal / Yashar Kemal / Yachar Kemal
İnce Memed / Memed My Hawk / Mèmed le mince / Memed mein Falke – Yaşar Kemal / Yashar Kemal / Yachar Kemal – 1955 Yaşar Kemal İnce Memed – Drawing by İsmail Gülgeç ~ Posted by Lale on 2/3/2006, 15:14:39 Memed ...
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Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer
Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer – 1974 Posted by Ladypurple on 29/3/2006, 16:53:02 I like her earlier work. Did I tell you that I met her once at her house in Jo-burg? What a privilege! She was so gracious and ki...
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Saturday – Ian McEwan
Saturday – Ian McEwan – 2005 Posted by Steven on 28/5/2006, 16:39:53 The full text of the poem that Daisy recites to Baxter: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold 1867 The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon li...
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I Am a Cat – Soseki Natsume
I Am a Cat – Soseki Natsume – 1905 Posted by Lale on 15/6/2006, 10:46:03 I started reading our June book: I Am A Cat by Natsume Soseki (has anyone else?) and I think it is absolutely delightful. However, it is a big...
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The Gambler – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Gambler – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 1866 Posted by Steven on 23/7/2006, 9:16:31 There is an online version at Project Gutenberg that is a translation by C. J. Hogarth. Before I started reading The Gambler, I compared...
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The Master of Petersburg – J. M. Coetzee
The Master of Petersburg – J. M. Coetzee – 1994 Posted by Steven on 20/7/2006, 22:50:35 I read J. M. Coetzee’s short novel The Master of Petersburg to compare it with Summer in Baden Baden. The story takes pl...
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Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin – 1981 / 2001 (written between 1977 and 1981, first published in 1981, published in English in 2001) Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 17/7/2006, 19:51:35 I am ready to start discu...
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True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey – 2000 Posted by Ülkü Ören on 19/8/2006, 10:22:01 Am I the first to finish reading True History of the Kelly Gang? First, I would like to introduce myself to the group. M...
