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Cornish Crime Classic
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The lyricism of colour:Gauguin
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The Pearl Fishers…..A book review
Gloria is spending Christmas and the holidays with me and my Hubby. She is very happy! On Christmas Eve I asked her if she wanted to write a letter to Santa. Yes, and no. She felt awkward telling me that she wanted something special. So, we had a heart-to-heart talk. The conversation went something like […]
Gloria’s Surprise Santa Gift
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Jazz with Ella
excerpt “Who knows?”Paul and Jennifer locked stares. “You still want to do this, don’t you?” she asked him.“Yes,” he nodded. A minute passed.Finally David spoke. “So Paul, if you’re really going to leave, can I have your leather jacket?”★Breakfast was chaotic. At first, Ivan Nikolaevich announced to the diners that their departure would be delayed […]
Jazz with Ella
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Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume I
Sea seain our minds in our souls in our veins the seaWe saw ships bringing mythic landshere in the blond sandwhere the evening wayfarers slow downWe dressed our childish loveswith wet seaweedsWe offered to the seashore godslustrous shells and pebblesMorning colors melted in waterdusk fires on the gulls’ shouldersmasts showing the immensityopen thresholds in the […]
Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume I
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Kupka meets Dowland!
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Marly-le-Roi
Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I love. These books were blacklisted by the Nazis in 1933, primarily for their depictions of the modern young woman, […]
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann)
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