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hard to put down.
I have been reading all afternoon and can't wait to pick up this book again before bed - I have a feeling I might be up late tonight. If you haven't heard about this new book, do check it out. It's the author's first book and it's getting rave reviews. He's really a great writer and so far I'm in love with his writing. It reminds me somewhat of Cormac McCarthy's style.
Books I read
<a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/2015/02/poetry-in-translation-cccxvii-constantin-roman-b-1941-romaniaengland-abbot-kir-abatele-kir/" Constantin ROMAN (b. 1941)
ABBOT KIR
Our good Abbot Kir
Had a dream rather queer,
Even though, he agreed, somewhat vain…
To his flute of Champagne
He would add some cassis
And he found the result utter bliss!
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
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My Books: Library of Intentions...
Book I read, Books I intend to read later on, books I consult, books I read intermittently, in dribs and drabs: all in all reflecting an eclectic taste broadly fitting an interest in 20th c History and Politics, Biography, architecture, Ireland, France, Basque Country, Romania, paintings, History of Art, poetry, a sprinkle of Fiction, dictionaries, reference books
2012 US Open Golf Magazine
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
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Inspirational listening: Nancy Griffith, "Other Voices, Other Rooms", Vol. I and II!
Dutch translation of "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948), 1968. Cover design: Dick Bruna.
At long last I have got hold of a copy of this book, one I have been after for around ten years now ! A very hard to get hold of book that contains many of the lyrics of Pogue and Popes frontman singer/songwriter Shane MacGowan. And I did not have to get a bank loan out to obtain it either !
The Adventures of Pinocchio
C. Collodi
CHAPTER 3
As soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio. The first pranks of the Marionette
Little as Geppetto's house was, it was neat and comfortable. It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway. The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table. A fireplace full of burning logs was painted on the wall opposite the door. Over the fire, there was painted a pot full of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam.
As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.
"What shall I call him?" he said to himself. "I think I'll call him PINOCCHIO. This name will make his fortune. I knew a whole family of Pinocchi once--Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia the mother, and Pinocchi the children-- and they were all lucky. The richest of them begged for his living."
My Library of Intentions:
Books I read,
Books I half-read
Books I will read (when time comes)
This shocking but riveting memoir by the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is a book about sexual, political and artistic freedom. In Before Night Falls, Arenas recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York four decades later. He tells of his odyssey from young rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his suppression as a writer, his disillusionment with Castro, his imprisonment and torture, to his eventual flight from Cuba. Now a feature film starring Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp, Before Night Falls is a stunning testament to an individual's urge to create against all odds. The DVD is low-key, very well acted and gripping.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
A Field Guide to Whisky: Everything You Need to Know About the New World of Whisky
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I LOVE BOOKS! Ex libris - see my library detailed here.
~ World Book Day today - 6 March!
Saarey Sukhan Hamaarey, a limited edition of collected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, produced and published by the now defunct Hosain's Books in London. Each of the 750 books of this limited edition was specially prepared: leather-bound (goat's skin), gold leaf gilding and marble laid endpapers on the inside covers. It was signed and numbered by Faiz, and we have number 456. It cost £100 in 1994, now the few remaining copies are sold at £170 each!
THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA, by Hanif Kureishi
Chapter one
"My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost."
This is how one of my favourite books begins: another book a re-read every year (and more than once a year).
It's funny, witty, touching, troubling... it talks of my age and experiences, even if I am not born in England and I am not from Pakistani heritage.
Kureishi is a wonderful writer, he goes down to the core of things and feelings, without letting go.
Another of his books I read and read is "My Ear at His Heart", the story of his father.
Parents decided to NOT put their newborn daughter through chemotherapy. Charlotte "did it her way" and survived and thrived.
Dutch translation (5th printing, 1980) of Hermann Hesse, "Klingsors letzter Sommer", 1920.
Cover design: Philip and Johanna Renard
Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
Peter Mayle (14 June 1939 – 18 January 2018) was a British author noted for his memoirs of life in Provence, France.
A premature baby girl was born to Matt and Liz Logeliln. The next day, before she even had a chance to hold her daughter, Liz suffered an aneurism and died instantly. Matt picked up the pieces and made a life for his new daughter. He has tried hard to incorporate his wife's beliefs and values into his daughters life.
buy in English online (E-Book £9.99 or $14.99)):
www.constantinroman.com/continentaldrift
Cumpara in Romaneste (on line $4.99 ):
www.constantinroman.com/continentaldrift
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Jim Ede, the art collector and patron of sculptors and painters, left his Estate to a reluctant University of Cambridge, in what it is today the museum of 20th c art, known as "Kettle's Yard". Ede was a close friend of Constantin Brancusi the Romanian sculptor who lived in Paris (see letter). Brancusi was also famous for his aphorisms published in France and Ede was the author of a biography of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska "The Savage Messiah", which was made into the eponymous movie in the 1970s.
The above manuscript letter in the Kettle's Yard''s archives was the object of a published article in "Manuscriptum", a literary Quarterly in Bucharest, Romania.
It was discovered by this student at Cambridge and sent along with an article and several illustrations, never published before, to the editor in Bucharest.
Sadly, in the best tradition of Romanian plagiarism the whole article was signed instead, and without consultation with the rightful owner, by a well-known art critic (who considered the subject to be entirely his preserved patch). The original author of the article to whom Jime Ede lent these documents for publication was relegated by the editor in Bucharest to a mere footnote by way of an acknowledgment "for graciously putting this material at our disposal"...
Now beat this Communist practice appropriating other researchers work, a method which is still rife in post-Communist Romania, not only in Arts but also in Science.