Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Friday, November 01, 2013

A 100 year old mirror

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Recently, I started reading what seems to be widely regarded as "The Great Transylvanian Novel", which is Miklos Banffy 's ...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Along the Enchanted Way (book review)

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William Blacker is an Englishman who lived in Romania for 8 years from 96-04. This book is part travelogue, part autobiography, part love ...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Small coincidences

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Couple of little coincidences happened this week. Firstly I was sitting in the garden reading William Blacker's " Along the Enchan...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

15th March 1848

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Today is, as you may have noticed, March 15th. Not much special about that for most people, aside from that whole ides of March / et tu brut...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Between the Woods and the Water

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Ages ago, a friend of mine urged me to read “Between the Woods and the Water” by Patrick Leigh Fermor, which is the second volume of a three...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Csikszereda in the Indepedent

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Just got the following link thanks to Lucy Mallows (who wrote it, and has a fascinating blog on Budapest here ) - it is a potted version (...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Going by the book

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It is an exciting day for me. Well it's not actually much different from most other days to be honest, but I'm trying to build this...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

About a Toy

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I feel like my last few posts have gone a bit much down the nationalism/anti-nationalism path so I thought for a bit of light relief I'd...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Dracula

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I had been meaning to re-read Dracula for ages. It was probably 20 years ago when I first read it, and ever since I moved to Transylvania I...
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Monday, November 12, 2007

Buy this book

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The one you can see here Some of the early reviews (none of which are made up in any way): "This is quite definitely the only and most ...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Brought to book

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Like a bus, you can wait years to be tagged and then loads come all at once. And so it is, that I have once again been tapped on the should...
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