About: klarusu
Posts by klarusu:
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April 17, 2009 Another Easter Distant in Time and Space
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April 16, 2009 Reviews, Reviews, Reviews
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March 29, 2009 5 Albums That Shaped Me
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March 27, 2009 Dear Chicago …
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February 19, 2009 Crush of the Week
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February 17, 2009 Seamus Heaney and Why We Write
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February 17, 2009 Reawakening The Gnome
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January 13, 2009 Reviews – Many, Many Reviews
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November 16, 2008 Review: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
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November 16, 2008 Review: Drop City by T.C. Boyle
- The header picture is a shot I took looking out onto Chesterman Beach, Tofino on Vancouver Island ... the place I would most like to be looking out at whilst reading books.
Recent Tweets from The Book Gnome
- @stephenfry Which poems, I ask curiously .... 25 minutes ago
- Trying hard to like Sookie Stackhouse but it's all just leaving me cold ... absolutely no endearing characters than I give a toss about. 20 hours ago
- If they'd known that they had to suffer this, they may have left it up RT @DowningStreet Bon Jovi performs in shadow of the Brandenburg Gate 1 day ago
- And did I mention the high tolerance for homemade vodka? I should have mentioned the vodka ... 1 day ago
- That said, it used to give me chills walking past Solidarnosc office each day because it was an image burned on me from news reports in 80s 1 day ago
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Recent Posts
Archives
Latest Reviews
Read them in full on my Reviews Blog
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
The Taker and Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca
In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta Ahmed
Currently Reading
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Beowulf (Norton Critical Edition) translated by Seamus Heaney
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewiecz
The Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

