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April 26
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Drej
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Translations: A Play (Faber Paperbacks)
by Brian Friel
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April 18
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New comment on Drej's review of
The Master and Margarita
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April 17
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Drej
marked as to-read:
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Mirra Ginsburg
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March 14
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Drej
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Mass Market Paperback)
by Susanna Clarke
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Drej
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by Susanna Clarke
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read in March, 2008
Drej said:
"This is a collection of stories set in the world of her novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Mostly fairy stories, 'tis true, but they are decidedly not nice fairies. You get the sense of a truly different race, alien to us, and not frie...more
This is a collection of stories set in the world of her novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Mostly fairy stories, 'tis true, but they are decidedly not nice fairies. You get the sense of a truly different race, alien to us, and not friendly.
Some of the stories feel more like nice imitations of form rather than great in themselves. Mostly, I got this impression from the last story, "John Uskglass and the Caumbrian Charcoal Burner." Clarke puts as an editorial disclaimer that the story likely has no basis in fact, being an example of typical powerful-ruler-outwitted-by-lowly-underling stories. The story is indeed quite unbelievable. All the while, I was wondering why she had bothered to include it. The point may be to show what might have happened had England had a magician-king; the masses surely would have conjured up such a story. But why go out of your way to both say the story's unbelievable and then make no effort to convince us?
On the whole, enjoyable and nice before bedtime. I would recommend it to anyone who has read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. ...less
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March 13
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Drej
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Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by Tom Robbins
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Drej
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by Patrick Süskind
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Drej
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Mass Market Paperback)
by Douglas Adams
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Drej
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Mass Market Paperback)
by Douglas Adams
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