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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Dialogues, Elegant Dialogues – Instalment 2 of the Dialogues mini series
Dialogues, Elegant Dialogues – Instalment 2 of the Dialogues mini series The second instalment of my mini series on Dialogues (launched with Dialogues, Glorious Dialogues) focuses on Elegance, defined by wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn as “the refined quality of gracefulness and good taste”. This is all … Continue reading
Can a book make you….feel cold? Instalment 2 of the “Can a book make you” series
Can a book make you…feel cold? Instalment 2 of the Can a book make you…series Ever read a book on a hot, summer day and yet felt like snuggling under a duvet? Try reading Miss Smilla’s feeling for snow, by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, reading, reviews, jars, glass
Tagged books, feeling, Food coloring, Glass, hoeg, Ice cube, miss, peter, smilla, snow
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Dialogues, Glorious Dialogues
Dialogues, Glorious Dialogues With Christmas looming I have been picking favourites from The Book People’s web site (www.thebookpeople.org). Looking over my shoulder, my 6 year old was snooping around for goodies from girls’ fiction. We amicably agreed on a number … Continue reading
Can a fiction book make you hungry? Instalment 1 of the Can a fiction book make you….
This post launches a mini series titled: Can a fiction book make you… In this first instalment I am going to focus on food, an obvious passion of many. Fiction is ripe with examples of characters eating, cooking, preparing and…destroying … Continue reading
Posted in books, books that influence, Books, reading, reviews, Books, reading, reviews, jars, glass, change behaviour, hungry
Tagged Anita Desai, behaviour, books, Brick Lane, can, Fasting Feasting, Glass, influence, jars, Julia Quinn, peppers, Serena Mackesy, Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Do you need to be an International Studies scholar to find this book so appealing?
“Things are what they are, and whatever will be will be”. Besides the captivating title (The hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared) it was the reassuring tone of this line that got me hooked. … Continue reading
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Tagged hundred year old man, international, Jonas Jonasson, politics, studies
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