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Sunyata House
Michael K Laidlaw About 9 000 words #406 3524 31st NW Calgary, Canada T2L 2A5 Email: 4451moana@gmail.com Sunyata House by Michael...
Bring on the Night
Michael K Laidlaw About 4 000 words #406 3524 31st NW Calgary, Canada, T2L 2A5 Email: 4451moana@gmail.com Bring on the Night by Michael...
So We Read On (book review) Maureen Corrigan
How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures 120116: i have not read critical work on [book:The Great Gatsby|27451] for many years...
Night Rainbow
Michael K Laidlaw About 3 500 words #406 3524 31st NW Calgary, Canada T2L 2A5 Email: 4451moana@gmail.com Night Rainbow by Michael...
The Baron in the Trees (book review) Italo Calvino
Archibald Colquhoun (Translator), Ana Goldstein (Translator) 120119: of calvino’s work this is possibly my favorite. on reflection, i...
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (book review) Italo Calvino
William Weaver (Translator) 060119: i am just now making a bookshelf for ‘oulipo’ work and was reminded calvino is one of the names. i...
Pereira Declares (book review) Antonio Tabucchi
A Testimony Patrick Creagh(Translator) 080415: brisk, beautiful, clear, concise. this very short book contains many ideas, much emotion,...
The Passion of Artemisia (book review) Susan Vreeland
210624: when i took art history at u i really did not enjoy it, now i see it everywhere, love it everywhere, am endlessly fascinated by...
The Seventh Function of Language (book review) Laurent Binet
Laurent Binet (Translation), Sam Taylor (Translation) 031017: not near as effective for me as his first book. i have been reading...
Experiences in translation (book review) Umberto Eco
Alastair McEwen (translator) 141214: just a note: i am glad there are translators, i have read over a third books from languages other...
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (book review) Umberto Eco
Geoffrey Brock(Translator) 170814: 'Tell me what you like, I will tell you who you are'- culture Geek credo... this is a fascinating...
Jealousy & In the Labyrinth (books review) Alain Robbe-Grillet
Richard Howard (Translator), Roland Barthes (Introduction), Bruce Morisette (Introduction), Anne Minor (Introduction) 210719: these...
L'année dernière à Marienbad (book review) Alain Robbe-Grillet
300419: great. remember reading it in english when 18 or 19, finally seeing the film in montreal at 24. but it is this cine-roman that...
Dans le labyrinthe (book review) Alain Robbe-Grillet
230419: read four times in translation [book:Jealousy & In the Labyrinth|55480] so i knew what i was getting here. first time read in...
Bonjour tristesse (book review) Françoise Sagan
110707: i read this as existential romance when i read it in translation, quick, charming, bittersweet, but it is now, reading it in...
Kallocain (book review) Karin Boye,
Gustaf Lannestock (Translator), Richard B. Vowles (Introduction) 270315: bleak, believable, banal, beautiful- best dystopia of which i...
Acts of Infidelity (book review) Lena Andersson,
(Ester Nilsson #2) Saskia Vogel(Translator) 280419: impressive interior monologue of mistress in an affair of several years, with...
A Wizard of Earthsea (book review) Ursula K. Le Guin
(Earthsea Cycle #1) ??? childhood. later addition: is this the first philosophy book i have read? reading it again i can see where my...
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