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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...

Paris in July 2022: La jeune fille et la nuit by Guillaume Musso

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How wonderful to enter Paris in July again. Thank you to  Readerbuzz  and  Thyme-for-tea  who are co-hosting this year's event. Some of you have already posted many interesting things about Paris/France. I start this year's challenge with a review of a book by Guillaume Musso. I might have got it from a common bookcase at my parents place. I have never heard about the author before, but it seems he belongs to one of the most popular authors in France. So much for keeping up with what is going on in other countries. I read it in Swedish which have the same title as in English, The Reunion.  In French it is called La jeune fille et la nuit. " The French Riviera – 25 years ago An elite prep school frozen in the snow Three friends linked by a tragic secret One girl taken by the night One freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell, the most beautiful and glamorous girl at her prep school, runs away with her philosophy teache...