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How is it that you can make people stay somewhere they want to leave, and make people leave who want to be there? (p. 111)| Dolce Bellezza
…I go on writing, conscious that my loose sheets of paper may contain my last hope that this fault in time is only temporary, the hope that the next sheet will never be filled, because time will return to normal and there will be no more eighteenths of November to write about. (p. 65)| Dolce Bellezza
Do not be deceived that this cool and shadowed path is what I am enjoying this Summer. It has been above 90 degrees for what feels like most of July, and I am chafed and irritable. As much as I dislike the Halloween displays all around me in Walgreen’s and Jewel, which have completely bypassed the Back to School displays, I am ready for Autumn.| Dolce Bellezza
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
Oh, Paris Baguette is food for my soul! When I walk in, I see this:| Dolce Bellezza
“ …he had hoped to improve his condition - and for that reason he was in Paris!”| Dolce Bellezza
It just occurred to me that it is July, and with that, comes the Paris in July annual event which I rarely miss. If we cannot go there physically, surely we must visit via literature.I have searched my collection, and found, to no one’s surprise, that I prefer to read the classics. I will choose from these selections:| Dolce Bellezza
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How prescient it is that The Persian would arrive on my doorstep the very week that Israel bombed Iran. I watched the news in disbelief and then opened this novel to find it all the more believable.| Dolce Bellezza
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
My mother loves lily of the valley. And when I brought a bunch to her sister, who was feeling ill this week, my aunt said, “Grandma loved these flowers.” Apparently, it runs in the family.What a thought: to run in the family. Imagine that the flowers loved by the women of the family grow in my backyard because I love them, too. Imagine the continuation of likes and similarities.| Dolce Bellezza
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
So many images flood my mind as I close the cover of this tender book. I see bottles of pale blue soda, called Fressy; a pygmy hippopotamus named Pochiko; a brown Mercedes driven by a suave and elegant uncle; and an asthmatic girl named Mina, whose presence is not only in the cover, but throughout the entire novel.| Dolce Bellezza
I found The Full Moon Coffee Shop to be a pleasant variation on an oft-repeated theme; so many Japanese books with cats as the central characters seem to have seized the market. While I like cats, I am not so fond of astrology, another theme within this book. But, there are other ideas within its pages that gave me pause.| Dolce Bellezza
Welcome! How lovely it is to see this challenge continue on to its eighteenth year. I so appreciate each of you readers. Here is the Review Site for the Japanese Literature Challenge 18. Please leave the link to the book(s) you have read this January and February in the widget below.| Dolce Bellezza
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
A book review blog for literary, and translated, fiction.| dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
If Ti Amo wasn’t in the fiction section of the library, I would have thought I was reading a letter. Or, more accurately, a personal journal entry. It is exquisite in its poignancy.| Dolce Bellezza
Silly me. I was intrigued to read this book not only for the Norwegian challenge I have put forth, but also because I thought it would be a kind of thriller. Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad has, at its core, a murder. And I love Scandinavian noir. But, this is noir of an altogether different kind.On Christmas Eve, Professor Anderson sets the table in his dining room. He changes into formal clothes, and serves ribs with crisp crackling from his own oven. We think, perhaps, that he...| Dolce Bellezza
In a way that is similar to the photograph I took of this bird and its reflection in the water, Fosse gives us a reflection of two men; one may be real, and the other a shadow. One may be transformed from the other into the person he has now become. Whatever the case, I have been intoxicated by the story of Asle. And, Asle.The first is a painter, who begins his narration by telling us of the painting he has just finished. It is one wide line of purple, and one wide line of brown, crossing eac...| Dolce Bellezza
‘And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it.’ — Revelation| Dolce Bellezza