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Abandoned Book: Today I Wrote Nothing

July 6, 2010

I tried with this one. I did. My brother recommended it to me. It’s Russian. It’s completely nonsensical. And I made it about 150 pages. I can’t do it anymore. Daniil Kharms is touted as an absurdist poet. He writes mostly in short vignettes. His quirky and bizarre writing just didn’t appeal to me. Here [...]

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The Angel’s Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

December 18, 2009

Title: The Angel’s Game Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon (trans. Lucia Graves) Pages: 544 Publisher: Doubleday Copyright: 2009 Format: Hardback Rating: ____________________________ I read Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s first book (at least the first of his books to be translated into English), The Shadow of the Wind, a couple of years ago and loved it. It’s one [...]

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