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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...

Book Talk # 2

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I read in the paper this morning that the Pulitzer prize for 2014 has been announced. Congratulations to Washington Post and The Guardian for the Public Service prize. In the Literature category The Goldfinch  by Donna Tartt won the prize for Fiction. I loved her book The Secret History  but haven't read anything else by her. Although this is on my reading list. Have you read it? What do you think? Other winners are Drama The Flick  by Annie Baker History The Internal Enemy. Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor Biography or Autobiography Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall Poetry 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri General Nonfiction Toms River: A story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin   Can't say I have heard about any of them, but I am sure they are all good. Anybody who knows? I am not always 100% for books that win prizes. For the Man Booker Prize as you know who follow me here, I am not too fond of the winners. I...