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Learning to be choosy!
A good friend of my recently bought me a year’s subscription to the Literary Review. For anyone who does not know this magazine, it’s published monthly in English and contains a series of fairly detailed reviews of recently published books. There is a bit more to the magazine than that, but 90%+ is book reviews.
There seem to be no specific genres it focuses on. In my first month’s edition there a Read more of this blog post »
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
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Thanks Richard, look forward to more of your reviews.
Hi Richard, I´m happy to welcome you on board. There are some great works I would never venture into reviewing but I do appreciate the people who do.
Looking forward to see what you will be reading.
Brgds Jacob
