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November | 2014 | mirabile dictu
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Monthly Archives: November 2014. Mirabile Does Middlebrow: Angus Wilson’s The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot. November 30, 2014. I don’t like to be classical when there’s a turkey in the oven. And so I read middlebrow novels on Thanksgiving. One year it was Edna Ferber’s. A bold novel about an intellectual Southern woman who marries a rich Texas rancher. (Ferber won the Pulitzer for her masterpiece,. On another, it was Jacqueline’s Susann’s page-turner,. Valley of the Dolls. The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot. Thepa...
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January | 2015 | mirabile dictu
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Monthly Archives: January 2015. Stella Gibbons’s Westwood. January 30, 2015. It is easy to lose yourself in almost-classics. You can become so absorbed in the engaging novels of Dodie Smith and Rumer Godden that you absent-mindedly forget to take a cake out of the oven, or. break a date to see. An underrated movie with a very good performance by Jennifer Aniston). Stella Gibbons is an equally compelling writer. Best known for her satire. Cold Comfort Farm,. The Rich House,. Her adventures begin when she ...
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August | 2015 | mirabile dictu
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Monthly Archives: August 2015. All That You’ve Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Sophocles and Aeschylus by Bryan Doerries. August 30, 2015. Any translator of Greek tragedies for new audiences has to be bold. I was intrigued by the boldness of Bryan Doerrie’s. All That You’ve Seen Here Is God. The Women of Traxis. His translations are spare and accessible, if lacking in the poetry of the Greek. The traumas of the heroes are vivid and moving to the military audiences. He is forgotten until nine years late...
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Bill Moyers’s Tribute to Doris Lessing | mirabile dictu
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Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time. The Best of Packaging: Cat in a Box! Raquo; Bill Moyers’s Tribute to Doris Lessing. Bill Moyers’s Tribute to Doris Lessing. August 7, 2015. I plan to write soon about the superb third novel in Doris Lessing’s. A Ripple From the Storm. This entry was tagged Doris Lessing. Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time. The Best of Packaging: Cat in a Box! 2 thoughts on “ Bill Moyers’s Tribute to Doris Lessing. August 8, 2015 at 9:57 am. August 8, 2015 at 11:26 am. An SF Novel L...
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Cestina's dolls houses: She sells seashells.....
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The journey to a dolls house museum of my very own. Small Worlds - Museum Information. Butterflys Work in Small Worlds. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Before I launch into a description of my most recent project, an update on my last blogpost. I said I thought I had garden chairs and seats - I hadn't anticipated finding nine tiny chairs and three garden seats! And then, joy of joys, Zoe, a visitor from Dolls Houses Past and Present. And I have owned it for many, many years. It came to me in an appalling stat...
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Reading Catching-Up: Brian Kiteley’s Still Life With Insects & Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango | mirabile dictu
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The Best of Packaging: Cat in a Box! Doris Lessing’s A Ripple From the Storm →. Raquo; Reading Catching-Up: Brian Kiteley’s Still Life With Insects and Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango. Reading Catching-Up: Brian Kiteley’s Still Life With Insects and Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango. August 10, 2015. I have read so many remarkable books this summer that I haven’t had time to write about them. 1989 classic, Still Life With Insects. The Gods of Tango. Still Life With Insects. Is one of the ...
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April | 2015 | mirabile dictu
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Monthly Archives: April 2015. April 30, 2015. Anyone who has been ostracized or blackballed for voicing a controversial opinion on Facebook, writing an incendiary op/ed piece, a too-critical blog, an impulsive e-mail, an unflattering caricature, or a provocative tweet learns that challenging the status quo is dangerous. It is comforting to know that PEN exists to protect freedom of speech. But not always, it would seem. May I just interject, “Je suis Charlie.”. I do Are they offensive? I applaud PEN for ...
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December | 2014 | mirabile dictu
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Monthly Archives: December 2014. Where’s My Book? December 30, 2014. 8220;War and Peace” in my bicycle helmet one summer! Today I made calls and behaved like the outspoken Marya Dmitrievna, the middle-aged. 8220;who told everyone her opinion as candidly, loudly, and bluntly, as ever…”. Actually I just went to my cousin’s house. I wanted my copy of. 8220;Great cookie. And is that my book? 8221; It was splayed face-down on a floury kitchen counter. Where’s my copy? She’s on page 10. Autobiography of a Face.
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February | 2015 | mirabile dictu
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Monthly Archives: February 2015. The TLS, The Last Trojan Hero, and Adventures in Stationery. February 26, 2015. I have just renewed my subscription to the. It is a guilty pleasure: I end up buying many scholarly books on classics reviewed in this publication. Right now I am finishing up Philip Hardie’s. The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil’s Aeneid. An entertaining overview of Virgil’s influence on literary works ranging from Ovid’s. To Michel Butor’s. Nouveau roman, La Modification. Few w...
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Cestina's dolls houses: May 2014
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The journey to a dolls house museum of my very own. Small Worlds - Museum Information. Butterflys Work in Small Worlds. Friday, 16 May 2014. For those unfamiliar with Small Worlds, and indeed to remind those of you who haven't seen it since last year, this is what it looked like when we arrived. It didn't take us very long to change all that! Why should we do that you may ask? Blame six months in England when, having recovered, more or less, from moving house, I had time and energy to trawl ebay . It has...
