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Blogging Anniversary - 10 years

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A while ago I checked when I did my first blog post, in order to celebrate with an anniversary post. Well, that day came and went without any reaction from me. Better late than never, so here a reminder of my very first blog post from 24 October 2012.  The book was New Finnish Grammar  by Diego Marani. Marani is an Italian novelist, translator and newspaper columnist. While working as a translator for the European Union he invented a language ‘Europanto’ which is a mixture of languages and based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many EU languages. It was a suitable book to start with, being a book about letters, languages and memories. With a beautiful prose, the novel went directly to my heart.  "One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship, Pietri Friari gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can ide...

Quotes from good books read in August

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I found a few quotes from the books I read in August. They were too long to put into the short summary, but why not give them a post of their own? I also added a few quotes from Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster As said, a great book. The Brooklyn Follies are full of stories, wonderful stories, stories about genuin people, about their lives, for good or for bad. Nathan Glass, the main protagonist is a wonderful character that you just can't help not loving. His attitude to life, may be because he has given up on having special dreams or demands from life, is clear cut.  "Life got in the way. two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all the much that bogs us down when we don't have the balls to stand up for ourselves - but I had never lost my interest in books. Reading was my escape and my conform, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, ...