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Random Ramblings: October 2013
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My view on literature, my foray into fictional writing and general musings. Saturday, 26 October 2013. A Quick Review of 'Jude the Obscure' by Thomas Hardy. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. View all my reviews. Links to this post. Location: Cupra Marittima Ascoli Piceno, Italia. Review of 'Something of Myself: Friends Known and Unknown' by Rudyard Kipling. Something Of Myself: For My Friends, Known And Unknown. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Where that greater place would be is difficult to say. From the first par...
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Random Ramblings: May 2014
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My view on literature, my foray into fictional writing and general musings. Thursday, 29 May 2014. Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou. Links to this post. Friday, 9 May 2014. We' - quick review. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. The edition of 'We' that I read was the 1959 translation by Gregory Zillborg, where the totalitarian world dominated by the Well-Doer is known as United State (this differs from many reviews I have seen that refer to One State). The influence upon Orwell's '1984' is evident, including provid...
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Random Ramblings: January 2014
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My view on literature, my foray into fictional writing and general musings. Sunday, 5 January 2014. I don't like the look of this future. A bookless library.not for me, thank you. Http:/ www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/inside-the-only-library-in-the-world-that-has-zero-books-and. This is a library - Bodleian, Oxford. Courtesy of http:/ www.cotswolds.info/places/oxford/bodleian-library.shtml. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Powered by Unanchor.com.
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Random Ramblings: March 2015
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My view on literature, my foray into fictional writing and general musings. Sunday, 1 March 2015. Pandora's Box of Writing. I recently opened my W-I-P box, my personal Pandoras box. Links to this post. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. A well-researched historical novel is a pleasure to read from a such a viewpoint, as was this work by Jessie Burton. An enjoyable read, but not as powerful as historical feminist pieces such as those by Sarah Waters. View all my reviews. Links to this post. Book reviews. books.
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Random Ramblings: August 2014
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My view on literature, my foray into fictional writing and general musings. Friday, 22 August 2014. Quick reviews of 'The Bell' by Iris Murdoch and 'Sacred Games' by Vikram Chandra. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Both hetero- and homo-sexual love are treated with care and tenderness, which considering the novel was written in the 1950s when homosexuality was illegal in Britain (though the Wolfenden report of 1957 had set the ball rolling along the decriminalisation path)makes the philosophical argument about l...
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Random Ramblings: April 2014
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My view on literature, my foray into fictional writing and general musings. Wednesday, 23 April 2014. My brain - where indecision reigns. My brain is a mish-mash of stuff. Links to this post. Location: San Benedetto del Tronto Ascoli Piceno, Italia. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Powered by Unanchor.com. A Little Bit of Italy. OUT NOW in Kindle format. Click on image to buy from Amazon.co.uk. Buy the Kindle version (non UK) from Amazon.com. A Little Bit of Italy.
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Random Ramblings: Pandora's Box of Writing
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My view on literature, my foray into fictional writing and general musings. Sunday, 1 March 2015. Pandora's Box of Writing. I recently opened my W-I-P box, my personal Pandora's box. Out of it fled poorly constructed characters, holey plots, meandering storylines and conflicting clues, not to mention almost illegibly written notes. Hope, the poor little mite, has been squashed flat under the weight of expectation and a tonne of paper. One of the non-fiction works, Crossing the Bosporus. 2012, that is how...
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City Chronicles - travel blog: October 2013
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City Chronicles - travel blog. A Little Bit of Italy - the second in the City Chronicles trilogy. Travel News and Articles. Wanderlust - Blog of the Week. Sunday, 27 October 2013. Termolis walls jut out into the perfect marine blue of the Adriatic. Links to this post. A Little Bit of Italy. Location: Termoli Campobasso, Italia. Sunday, 13 October 2013. She sees sea shells, not only on the sea shore. My peripatetic lifestyle continues. Links to this post. Location: Cupra Marittima Ascoli Piceno, Italia.
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City Chronicles - travel blog: July 2014
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City Chronicles - travel blog. A Little Bit of Italy - the second in the City Chronicles trilogy. Travel News and Articles. Wanderlust - Blog of the Week. Wednesday, 23 July 2014. Rovigo - A town of wasted potential that is failing in all quarters, not least tourism. Rovigo, as I mentioned in a previous article. Has a lot to offer, but when it comes to generating tourism it has been sadly short-sighted. Links to this post. Location: 45100 Rovigo Rovigo, Italia. Saturday, 12 July 2014. Links to this post.
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