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Almost Insider
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Sometimes about Hungarian books and sometimes about other ones. Form a point of view of an "almost insider".
Recent Posts
A Story of Smelling
Patrick Süskind: Perfume:A Story of a Murderer (1985)A story of smelling, set in the 18. centruy in France. My first question was to this book: is it necessary to set this story in this century? Or is it that kind of „historical” fiction, which ...
The White King
Gyorgy Dragoman: The White KingThe life of the former „Eastern Block” form the point of view of a child. Djata is a 11 years old boy, his father is at a forced labor camp. This is the most important motive in the book, which contains of several g...
The Sunday Salon: Hard to write review
There are two books I’ve read already weeks (month?) ago, and I always promise to write review, but I couldn’t manage still. Well, I don’t write reviews about every book I read, but these are on my list to the Fall into Reading Challenge list, ...
Is it really a secret?
Anna Enquist: The Secret(2000)The story of the Dutch writer, Anna Enquist is about the life of a (Dutch) pianist, Wanda Wiericke. We can follow her life from the moment of her birth till when she is over 60. Sometimes it looks like a movie script, ev...
The Sunday Salon: A really, really really, really reading Sunday
Update (16:35 - CET)OK, the book of the day is definitely a short novel by the French author: Christian Bobin. He is a new author for me, I've read on the web, he sells his short books in more than 100 000 samples.The book's French title is La folle...
The Sunday Salon: A really, really reading Sunday
I'm currently reading a Slovenian histrical fiction, set in the end of the 18. century: Katarina by Drago Jancar. The story is about an almost 30 year old woman and about a pilgrimage. The book reminds me of the wonderfull lyrical novel by Istvan Szi...
