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NYRB Reading Week: Rumer Godden’s An Episode of Sparrows

After reading the book, I tried looking for images on google using keywords such as: post world war II London, catford street, London street images – but came up with very [...]
Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy

Iphigene here. “I’ve underestimated you” “I’m used to being underestimated” said Jack Detective Inspector Jack Spratt is the head of the [...]
The Domestic Life of a Victorian Nobody: The Diary of a Nobody

Iphigene here. “I fail to see—because I do not happen to be a “Somebody”—why my diary should not be interesting” – Charles Pooter The Diary of a Nobody is by [...]
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Iphigene here. I’ve heard of North and South from a friend. She generously gave me a copy of the book and I, like a classic-hungry reader, read it immediately. Strangely [...]
A trip to Austenland: A Saturday with Persuasion

I feel that it’s not appropriate for me to claim that this is a review of a classic. After all, even before my birth it has found its way in the hearts of generations [...]
Roman Diary by Richard Platt and David Parkins

The entire notion of a diary is that it’s mostly girly stuff with sappy sob-stories and heartbreaking growing-up pains. Richard Platt’s Roman Diary as illustrated by [...]
Romance with the Snow Continues with Fernando Krahn’s The Self-Made Snowman: A Wordless Picture Book Special

I was supposed to borrow a different set of wordless picture books from our library when I saw this book by Fernando Krahn and I knew it was the perfect follow-up post to my [...]
Book Talk Tuesday: Roald Dahl’s Witches

Iphigene here. When I read Dahl’s Witches, I didn’t have a clue of its plot. It was a Dahl book; I was in a Dahl phase, so I read it. Here’s another Roald Dahl for [...]
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.” – Death DISCLAIMER: This is a juvenile attempt to capture the essence of Markus Zusak’sThe Book Thief. As soon as [...]
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Musings Regarding Writing Style I was not riveted by the book at the beginning. It’s the kind of writing style that requires you to read through quite a lot of chapters [...]
Nonfiction Monday – Reflections on Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

Fats here. “An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography… None of these [...]
NYRB Reading Week: Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book

Delight, then sorrow, Aboard the cormorant Fishing boat -Bashō The summer book is very much like a ride above a cormorant fishing boat, for reading it was delight, [...]

[Featured Guest for November – December] The Fantastical Peter Lerangis

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Myra here. We just launched our reading theme this November – December: Dragons, Mermaids, Vampires – Legendary Beasts and Mythical Creatures In keeping with our [...]
[Meet the Storyteller] The Boy, The Spy, The Translator: Lawrence Schimel

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[Featured Guest for September – October] Storyteller Lawrence Schimel

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