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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...

Spell the Month in Books

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I found this easygoing meme on Marianne's Let's Read . I have seen it a couple of times, and wanted to jump on the bandwagon, but somehow never did. Ok, now is the time. It seems it first appeared on Reviews from the Stack . The goal is to spell the name of the current month by using the first letter of book titles (skipping articles like A, An, and The).  I will try to gather books I have read this year. If that is not enough I go for my TBR stacks. Let's see where I end up.  After a first glance just adding the titles, I see a lot of favourites; Paulo Coelho and Anne Tyler. Maybe not so strange after all since I have read quite a few books this year by these authors. Adding two classic tales Barabbas and Riding the Iron Rooster feels good, and then of course, these days we have to have a book about a strong woman. Here Eleanor Marx comes in as a remarkable woman who achieved a lot. I add my reviews (if one) under the links and a short summary of the book in question (fr...