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The Hobbit
In a hole in a ground there lived a hobbit. …something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. With this year’s release of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected… Read more >>
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The Kiss and Other Stories
[I believe I read this 1915 edition, translated by R. E. C. Long, courtesy of Google books.] Anton Chekhov was a 19th century Russian author well known for his short stories. The Kiss and Other Stories contains fourteen of these, each like a vignette of a scene from Russian country and city life. “The Kiss”… Read more >>
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Four (more) short reviews
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 4 out of 5 stars This award-winning novel is about an English butler, Mr. Stevens, who takes a road trip in the English countryside. Though he attempts to keep a travelogue, he ends up reminiscing about his father, his friendship with housekeeper Miss Kenton, and his former employer’s… Read more >>
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Weekend Quote: Bantering
“It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one’s work to take in duties not traditionally within one’s realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One… Read more >>
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