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Paul’s 2023 Year in Books
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Paul Alkazraji
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'Beni’s Game'. A new short story by Paul Alkazraji.
Three Albanian words:
shiko – well, look
budalla – stupid
mirë – good
Luan rammed the gears of the Mercedes from second to fourth, and surged down the wrong side of the airport road past a line of cars, flashing his headlights. Jude was thrust back deep into the leather seat with the acceleration. The sky ahead of them had streaks of lilac and molten iron below the black heights as a lone aircra Read more of this blog post »
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The Silencer
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The Migrant
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Heart of a Hooligan
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Love Changes Everything: Seven Remarkable Real Life Stories
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Christ and the Kalashnikov
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"This is a very unusual novel for me to read, in that it deals with contemporary political issues which are very much alive in the world today. For an English reader, that unfamiliarity may be compounded because the author takes his story from the vie"
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(Freedom to the People!) Communist monument, Albania. ‘When freedom finally arrived, it was like a dish served frozen,’ says Lea Ypi of life in post-communist Albania as she meditates in ‘Free’ on the idea’s true meaning. ‘We chewed a littl ...more |
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Very happy with this new review of my short story ‘Beni’s Game’.
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"🌂 First off, I will say I enjoy the stories far more than the BBC series. I don’t mind the actors, but tbh something is lost in translation, whether in production or direction or both. It does not move along well imo.
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“Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.”
― Love Changes Everything: Seven Remarkable Real Life Stories
― Love Changes Everything: Seven Remarkable Real Life Stories
“He sat down with a dour face. “Ah, Shqipëria!” he said dropping his head. “Albania will never become Albania with Albanians in it!” He glanced at Jude. “Don’t ask.”
― The Silencer
― The Silencer
“We can’t all be Byronic adventurers like you Jude. Have you been wrestling with any brigands in the mountains there?”
“No, but you’ve got to watch the drivers! Funny you should mention the poetic lord. He used to take his holidays down here, you know?”
“What… picking up last-minute bargains with ‘EasyFrigate’?”
― The Silencer
“No, but you’ve got to watch the drivers! Funny you should mention the poetic lord. He used to take his holidays down here, you know?”
“What… picking up last-minute bargains with ‘EasyFrigate’?”
― The Silencer
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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
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Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
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“Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. ”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
― Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
― Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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