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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
Horseman On The Roof
bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, published-1951, france, plague-disease, adventure, italy, picaresque, spring-2012, tbr-busting-2012, 3m-bookshelf-challenge, translation, medical-eew, bedside
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Esther
Read from May 25 to June 09, 2012
Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin
Dedication: To the memory of my friend Charles Bistési and to Suzanne
Opening: Dawn found Angelo mute and yawning but awake. The brow of the hill had protected him from the slight dew that falls in these regions in summer. He rubbed his horse down with a handful of heather and rolled his saddlebag.
Started reading this aloud to my better half - he fell asleep and I kept right on, on horseback, into cholera-ridden Provence.
Beeee-autiful writing.
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4* - The Man Who Planted Trees (1954)
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Dedication: To the memory of my friend Charles Bistési and to Suzanne
Opening: Dawn found Angelo mute and yawning but awake. The brow of the hill had protected him from the slight dew that falls in these regions in summer. He rubbed his horse down with a handful of heather and rolled his saddlebag.
Started reading this aloud to my better half - he fell asleep and I kept right on, on horseback, into cholera-ridden Provence.
Beeee-autiful writing.
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4* - The Man Who Planted Trees (1954)
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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