Category: reading
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This shifting towards each other was not at all like real, exciting, genuine attraction. On ‘The Rosie Project’
I picked out The Rosie project from the minibieb. The Dutch minibieb (‘little library’) is a relatively new phenomenon you might know, from somewhere in your own country; the tiny wooden homemade cabinets standing in residential areas, with books in them. The idea is to freely take or leave them. I took that one, anyway,…
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He does not pretend to be a good person. On ‘Treasure Island’
Agatha Christie must have liked Robert Louis Stevenson’s books very much. I read about them constantly in hers, and in that context he seemed some sort of mystery person – a name, on a book, that would jump out at me. Should Tommy or Tuppence or The-Colonel-when-he-was-still-a-boy or the young son of the flamboyant new…
