Literary Birthday – 21 February – David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was born on 21 February 1962 and died on 12 September 2008.
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Quotable – Jonathan Safran Froer
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Literary Birthday – 21 February – W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden was born 21 February 1907, and died 29 September 1973.
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Literary Birthday – 21 February – Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin was born on 21 February 1903 and died on 14 January 1977.
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Quotable – James Kilpatrick
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Book Review – A Cat, A Hat And A Piece Of String
by Joanne Harris (Doubleday) ISBN: 9780857521200 Joanne Harris writes fabulous fables that reveal the journeys her characters take in sixteen short stories. River Song spoke to me. I felt myself slithering over smooth stones in the river. The next story brings the beach to two oldies in a home. One tray of water for her feet makes her remember
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Book Review – Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand
by Bridget O’Donnell (Picador) ISBN 9780330544641 The title led me to think I was about to discover another fictional hero detective. Instead I was pulled into a fascinating historical account. It tells how the courage of one man was a catalyst for the 1885 turning point in a Victorian revolution that saw the rising middle class
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Book Review – Opening Moves
by Steven James (Signet) ISBN 9780451237767 This prequel is the sixth installment in the Bower Files series. We meet Special Agent Patrick Bowers ten years ago, when he was a Milwaukee homicide detective, still doing his post-graduate studies. A series of strangely familiar incidents occur on his watch, and Bowers is concerned that he may be
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