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A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: Europe
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Merging Stories With Water as a Bonding Element [Book Review]
Elif Shafak takes a walk through ancient Mesopotamia, 19th-century London, and contemporary Iraq to bring us this timeless tale
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A Fig Tree Recounts History [Book Review]
Star-cross lovers find themselves trapped in a civil war between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus
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Analyzing One of the New Poirot Mysteries [Book Review]
Diving into the writer who picked up Agatha Christie’s legacy with the authorization of her family
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Weekly Opening Lines – Jan 11th
From Broken April, by Ismail Kadare: “His feet were cold, and each time he moved his numbed legs…”
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie’s First Book
The inception of the famous detective Hercule Poirot – and how an editor created one of the Belgian’s most famous scenes
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Books on My Winter 2024-2025 To-Read List (TTT)
The titles I plan to burry myself into to escape the cold
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Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 30th
From The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak: “Once upon a memory, at the far end of the Mediterranean Sea, there lay an island so beautiful…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 16th
From The Mystery of Three Quarters, by Sophie Hannah: “Hercule Poirot smiled to himself as his driver…”
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