I have finished this book but the Internet has died on me, forcing me to think for myself (horror) as I type this review (seeing how I cannot look at other people's reviews of it, and I really need to type this now while the memory is fresh ( Read more... )

The Wild Geese is a short novel by Mori Ōgai, written in Japanese in 1911 to 1913. It is about requited but unfulfilled love as well as male-female relationships in 1880s Japan. The book is beautifully written, straightforward, so I'll quote parts of it ( Read more... )

Pole wakes from 19-year coma in democratic country ( Read more... )

How You Are In Love
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After getting up this morning, I picked up this book with a heavy heart, as I had only 50 pages to go and it would soon be over. Mistress of Ambiguities is the fourth and last book in the Silverglass series. It continues with Nyctasia's hard work as ruler of Rostshyl to strengthen the city-state and her power over it. While before she was in danger ( Read more... )

I dare you to read through 021407 and not mist up.

I found this quote in a book called Too soon to say goodbye:

"Men and women cannot live by bread alone. They must also tinkle. Show me someone who has no trouble tinkling and I will show you a happy and rich person."

By Art Buchwald, who had a kidney stone.

According to Spirits of the dead: Roman funerary commemoration in Western Europe by ( Read more... )

From phable.


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On my way home, I noticed the traffic lights at a very busy cross-section weren't working. Every time this happens, I think about how much I don't envy the cop whose job it is to stand in the middle and direct traffic. Los Angeles = fun to drive in ( Read more... )