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message 4: by Betty (new)
Jan 21, 2013 08:57AM

Betty True, Judy, I was thinking about more seaside summers, mountainous falls, winter's deserts, and springtime plains to escape for a little adventure.


message 5: by Betty (new)
Jan 26, 2013 07:54PM

Betty 4. Sweden. Stillness of the World Before Bach: New Selected Poems
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

One of the briefer poems to fit into a few lines:

"The Cherry Tree" by Lars Gustafsson
One night of sudden storm
the cherry tree fell
and when crest and trunk and twigs
had been pulled apart, set aside
the last cherries glowed
in the grass, random as they fell.
Nothing special about them,
no special taste or quality,
except they were the last.


message 6: by Betty (new)
Feb 05, 2013 06:13PM

Betty 5. Turkey. Snow
review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I expect to read three of Pamuk's novels in 2013--SNOW, MY NAME IS RED, THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE.


message 7: by Betty (new)
Feb 08, 2013 05:13PM

Betty 6. Spain. The Spanish Tragedy
review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

This is an Elizabethan play of the 1580s-1590s.


message 13: by Betty (new)
Apr 26, 2013 09:35PM

Betty 11. Russia The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

A memoir from the point of view of a comparative literature graduate student on her favorite subject: Russian literature.

review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


message 14: by Betty (new)
Jun 21, 2013 09:52PM

Betty 12. France Manon Lescaut

18th-c novel about star-crossed romance of two young Parisians, later adapted into an opera, &c.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


message 15: by Betty (new)
Jul 28, 2013 10:42PM

Betty 13. Argentina Ficciones

Jorge Borges's classic short-story collection, incorporating post-modern techniques and vivid storytelling.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


message 16: by Betty (new)
Aug 03, 2013 01:47PM

Betty 14. Norway The Ice Palace

A schoolgirl's tragedy in the Norwegian winter gets the further concern of the community when her friend Siss's grieving becomes prolonged.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


message 17: by Betty (new)
Aug 20, 2013 07:43PM

Betty 15. South Africa Disgrace

A man and his adult daughter attempt to live in post-apartheid South Africa.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


message 18: by Betty (new)
Sep 19, 2013 10:44PM

Betty 16. Bosnia and Herzegovina The Bridge on the Drina

An epic tale about town life surrounding a bridge built in sixteenth-century Bosnia by an Ottoman Pasha.

review: The Bridge on the Drina


message 19: by Betty (new)
Oct 04, 2013 12:09AM

Betty 17. Italy Greene on Capri

Like taking a vacation to an island filled with beautiful flowers and with literary history from the writers who stayed on it.

review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...Greene on Capri


message 20: by Betty (new)
Oct 07, 2013 02:04PM

Betty 18. Japan The Box Man

More surrealistic literary novel than the more well-known The Woman in the Dunes. The second half makes worthwhile the uncertain identities and events in the first half. Also in the second half, Abé exemplifies the all-over artistic person he was. Look for strange viewpoints from the author, things that escaped such interpretation and even such possibility.

review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


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