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Apr.27.2013
Host Phil Naessens congratulates Novak Djokovic on his impressive win over Rafael Nadal in last weeks Monte Carlo Rolex Open, congratulates Italy and Russia on their recent Fed Cup Wins, comments about The All England Clubs huge raise in prize money at the 2013 Wimbledon Grand Slam and...
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Oct.26.2012
Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s novel, The Prisoner of Heaven, is one of a cycle of novels that Ruiz Zafon says can be read independently and in any order. I have no reason to doubt that, but I wish I had stumbled on The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game before I picked up The Prisoner of Heaven....
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Oct.11.2012
I commenced Spanish study at seventy years old so that I would not die of boredom.
My working visa was no renewable in China (or anywhere at such an age) and there is only so much time you can spend bent over in the garden. I live alone so cooking, which I’ve always enjoyed, no longer has the...
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Oct.17.2011
I’m back home, up early because my circadian rhythm is tapping its foot to Barcelona’s beat. Barcelona was our disembarkation point from the cruise. We stayed an extra day to return to the Segrada Familia. Although the most ambitious plans don’t see the Roman Catholic...
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Nov.08.2010
University of Oklahoma's venerable magazine World Literature Today (established as Books Abroad back in 1927) has dedicated its November/December issue to writing from modern India.
Of course, the focus on Indian writing is not new for the magazine. It carried a brief survey of Indian poetry...
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Oct.04.2010
Michael and I have kept a very sporadic and not-so-well done food blog when we are traveling around. Here is my entry for today about eating in Barcelona:
http://foodwhine.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/eating-like-a-hobbit/
Jessica
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Oct.04.2010
Many years ago, in an old edition of The Best American Short Stories of some year, probably 1985 or so, there appeared a story entitled Barcelona by Alice Adams. It was the first story in the book, and I'm not sure if that is because of the alphabet or if it was "first" that year in...
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Oct.02.2010
Barcelona and I aren't related. We aren't long lost twins, suddenly reunited. We have not been secretly longing for each other, falling into one another's arms upon meeting. We are more like two wary teenaged boys wanting the same girl, circling and circling each other trying to find out why.
I...
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Jul.16.2010
World Cup fans, don’t fear hours of emptiness. Take up a work by an international crime fiction author. It’s the perfect replacement for your lost fix – and it’s a lot better for your soul, too.Here’s why. As the World Cup unfolded over the last month, newspapers all over the globe were filled with...
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Jul.18.2009
Anyone first introduced to the impassioned prose of Carlos Ruiz Zafón through his international bestseller, The Shadow of the Wind, will find it difficult to avoid comparing it to any follow-up to the novel. Where Zafón's latest release in English, The Angel's Game is concerned, that is both a good...
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