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Lizzy's Literary Life

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Lizzy's Literary Life · 11h ago

Spoken like a true bookworm #1

It’s the same with books, you see mounds of them in bookshops and you want to read them all, or at least to have a taste of them.  You think you could be missing out on something important, you see them and they intrigue you, they tempt you, they tell you how insignificant your life [...]
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 2d ago

Memory of the Abyss – Marcello Fois

Winner Grizane-Cavour Literary Prize, the Volponi Prize and the Alessi Prize Published by MacLehose Press Translated by Patrick Creagh A couple of years ago I took part in a take-a-picture-a-day competition. Almost half the pictures I took were of trees – I love them. Thus the cover on this unsolici
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 1w ago

Stabat Mater – Tiziano Scarpa

Despite my growing unease, let us tarry a little while longer in Venice …. Winner of the Strega Prize 2009 Published by Serpent’s Tail Translated by Shaun Whiteside Everyone, but everyone has heard parts of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (even if only while holding on the phone).  What they may not know – l
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 1W ago

Venice in February …. adjourned to May

But not for real.  This is a virtual tour of a place that I would love to visit some day … well, actually, now I’m not so sure.  Let me explain. City-Pick Venice was my choice for the Blogging Event Venice in February.  Real life interference means it’s has taken almost 3 months for the blog to catc
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 2W ago

Of Lear and Limericks

The husband of a reader named Lizzy Lathered himself into a bit of a tizzy. These book stacks are too high!  You’ve no need to buy Any more. There’s enough here to keep you quite busy! ——————— 1812 was a vintage year gifting Charles Dickens, Robert Browning and Edward Lear to the world.  I suspect I
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 2W ago

Skios – Michael Frayn

I have now established that I have 8 months to wait before I can read the final part of Peter May’s The Lewis Trilogy.  That’s a long, long time when I actually feel bereft.   I am in need of distraction. For this reason I’m starting a new reading project.  If I was a rich (wo)man (da,da,da,da,da,da
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 2W ago

The Crimes Literary Supplement: From The Outer Hebrides

This blog recently visited St Kilda, courtesy of Karin Altenburg’s Orange longlisted, Island of Wings. With Books 1 and 2 of Peter May’s The Lewis Trilogy, it is time to embark on a tour of Hebridean islands that remain inhabited. The journey begins as the name of the trilogy suggests, on Lewis, the
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 3W ago

The Crimes Literary Supplement: Spring 2012

It’s been a while since I went on the rampage had a crime reading binge but this one, fuelled by full-on stress, is approaching epic proportions. Books 1 and 2:  Debut Novels I’ve been meaning to read The Medieval Murderers for a while now.  So I took advantage of The Book People’s offer and bought
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 3W ago

Painter of Silence – Georgina Harding

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2012 Published by Bloomsbury Georgina Harding’s third novel is set amidst the upheavals of twentieth-century Romanian history: from the 1930s through the 1950s when what was still almost a feudal state was overturned by the cruelties of World War II and Stalinism.  Y
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Lizzy's Literary Life · 1M ago

A poetic puzzle and some music

Do you know what this is? qaDelmeH bov tuj pem vIlo’choHQo’. I find myself reading the funniest book I’ve read for a long time  Don Paterson’s Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets.  I had no idea that literary criticism / commentary could be so entertaining!  The book offers a line by line, sonnet by sonne
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