Books
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A chance encounter with a lovely book { The Lost Words }
I ran into this book at my local library. At first it was the size and illustrations that caught my eye. But then I flipped it around and found an even more endearing reason to read it. Heartbreaking – yes? Each of the 10 words listed in the book is accompanied by a very lovely…
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The best thing I read today
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think it’s emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. Middlemarch by George…
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Books and Dreams
A note to readers – Here, I originally intended to simply tell you about two books: David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words. They are both really good, entertaining, yet antipodes for personal accounts on learning a foreign language which is something I have tried to do for many…
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3 Fun Children’s Books
Sharing three wonderful and beautifully illustrated children’s books that I can’t get enough of!
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When do you purchase a new cookbook?
Wondering … When do you purchase a new cookbook? And sharing the two that have made the cut for me.
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The Antibland Chronicles 