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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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Six in Six for 2015

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With Paris in July you always find a lot of new, nice blogs (thank you Tamara for making it easy to follow them all!). Through them, in this case Guiltless Reading I also find links to other interesting blogs. This is one Challenge I could not resist from Jo at  The Book Jotter . Jo explains: "the idea being that as the end of June approaches and we are then halfway through 2015,  let us share the books we have read in those first 6 months. In fact let’s share 6 books in 6 categories, or simply just 6 books. Whatever you want to and the same book can obviously feature in more than one category. " I borrowed some of her suggestions for categories, but you can obviously make up your own. Here are my choices, and I think you can easily see which of the books are my favourites, since they keep popping up. Or, it is only because there was not enough variety in my reading this year? Hmm, I don't know.  
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