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  • JasonPalmer
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    • Dec 2022
    • 826

    Reading today's telegraph, interesting quarter page advert for Jacob Rees mogg on gb news. The Tory tv channel eh
    Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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    • Bryn
      Banned
      • Mar 2007
      • 24688

      Tony Greenstein's "Zionism During The Holocaust - The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation". Highly recommended, thoroughly researched investigation into the links between political Zionism and the far right from Hitler to Trump et al.

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      • jayne lee wilson
        Banned
        • Jul 2011
        • 10711

        Just finished...
        The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken....

        Just embarked upon.....
        Old God's Time, by Sebastian Barry....

        Rereading and perusing...
        Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout...

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        • smittims
          Full Member
          • Aug 2022
          • 4040

          I'm re-reading Chekhov's plays for the umpteenth time: nearing the end of the Cherry Orchard. Then it's 'Barchester Towers' I think, as re-reading the Barchester Chronicles is my treat this year.
          Last edited by smittims; 18-03-23, 11:41.

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          • gradus
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 5601

            Vol 3 (of 5) of Jonathan Sumption's history of the Hundred Years War. The final vol is due out in July.

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            • Pulcinella
              Host
              • Feb 2014
              • 10872

              The discomfort of evening
              Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (trans by Michele Hutchison)
              The 2020 International Booker Prize Winner

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              • eighthobstruction
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 6425

                .....My Journey to Lhasa :Alexandra David-Neel c1927
                bong ching

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                • JasonPalmer
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2022
                  • 826

                  I have been rereading churchill style, a book about the life of churchill by a man who runs a churchill themed shop in america.
                  Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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                  • Bella Kemp
                    Full Member
                    • Aug 2014
                    • 457

                    The Grapes of Wrath. It's an extraordinarily well-written and engrossing story as well as being one of the most compelling indictments of the U.S. form of capitalism ever written.

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12765

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                      ... the Correspondence of Horace Walpole ed WS Lewis vol 34 : letters to the Countess of Upper Ossory vol iii - 1788-1797

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                      • smittims
                        Full Member
                        • Aug 2022
                        • 4040

                        Just getting into 'Barchester Towers' for I think the fourth time, and the Signora has just arrived as Mrs. Proudie's reception.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30206

                          Just heard from someone who's intending to go to the production of Die tote Stadt (or The Dead City as they term it at the Coliseum) - opening this week. Seemed the moment to reread G Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte. My paperback edition has all the original photos of Bruges from the 1892 edition.
                          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                          • Padraig
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                            • Feb 2013
                            • 4220

                            Originally posted by Bella Kemp View Post
                            The Grapes of Wrath. It's an extraordinarily well-written and engrossing story as well as being one of the most compelling indictments of the U.S. form of capitalism ever written.
                            As it happens, Bella, my book (I'm re-reading it) just mentioned yours. "I got stoned alone. . . read The Grapes of Wrath and The House of the Seven Gables which seemed as if they had to be tied for the most boring book ever written . . . " Theo Decker in The Goldfinch.

                            I tend towards your view!

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                            • smittims
                              Full Member
                              • Aug 2022
                              • 4040

                              Another writer who had a thing about Bruges was Pamela Hansford Johnson , who lived there for a while and at least one of whose novels is set there. I think she's due for a reassessment, some of her books coming back into print after having been forgotten for decades.

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                              • Stanfordian
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 9308

                                'The Passenger' - Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (Pushkin Press 2021)

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