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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...
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Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson

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I have just joined a "Borrow and Read" circle at my local bookshop. You pay 40€ and you can borrow and read 55 books. Most of them are newly published books within fiction and crime novels. Since I seldom read very new books, I am happy to have this possibility instead of buying them. The concept is; you borrow one book at the time, you can keep it as long as you like, the last book you borrow you can keep. Not a bad deal. The first book I choose was Meet Me at the Museum  by Anne Youngson. A new writer to me, and it seems it is her first novel. It is a 'letter novel' and the correspondence takes place between a Danish man working at a museum in Denmark, and an English woman living on a farm in East Anglia. It starts with a preface to a book about the Tollund Man, written by a professor Glob. At the time he dedicated the book to a group of school girls who were interested in the find. Fifty years later Tina Hopgood writes a letter to him. She is looking back t...
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