Musings of a Bibliomaniac

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Padgett Powell
Margaret Drabble
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear
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I've been talking about going to see the Railway Man in the cinema with friends but wanted to know more about it, so I though...
2014
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It has sometimes seemed to me that if the author can in no way keep himself out of his work it might be better if he put in a...
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.― Marcel Proust Every act of perceptio...
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2013
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2013
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reviewed: Lost in the woods
It's been a while since I have read a book that has left me so utterly devastated, a book entailing such a profound emotional...
In the Woods  - Tana French
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“Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong determination and from her mother an attractive ankle.” (CCF, p.1) when l...
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When Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) died of typhoid fever contracted during an African trip with Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), Coct...
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First of all, I am really tired of all this ‘rake’ false advertising. Half of romance writers obviously don’t know what a rea...
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Sometimes when I read books, I am delighted to find that an author has captured in words small experiences, feelings, quirks,...

Currently reading

Edisto
Padgett Powell
The Pure Gold Baby
Margaret Drabble
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear
Progress: 28 %