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F.E.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at F.E.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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F.E. Beyer
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May 2012
The Worm and the Ring
The Worm and the Ring by Anthony Burgess My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Worm and the Ring is remarkable not so much for Anthony Burgess taking a crack at his former colleagues at Banbury Grammar School, but rather for the author’s creativity in animating a school serving ���drearily picturesque towns���. Burgess had already ... The Worm and the Ring
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Buenos Aires Triad
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Smoko
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The Crushed Can
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| A popular roman dur. Silly in a sense, but also deadly serious in showing that evil can come from having an abyss inside. Lots of hanging out in cafés and asking the waiter for writing materials, not sure such service is available these days -- but w ...more | |
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When I grow up I want to be a good person like Peter. In all seriousness, worthy of the praise it got. |
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"I am probably guilty of not having read more of Maugham's work - I have read only one other - a novella called Up at the Villa, which I liked well enough.
This collection of short stories all take place in the British colonies of Malaya, Burma (now My" Read more of this review » |
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Houellebecq discusses this book , or the author Huysmans at least, in his novel Submission. Huysmans is a forerunner of Houellebecq but considerably more civilised. The Damned is certainly an easier read than his more famous Against Nature. If you're ...more |
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| Some funny passages about teaching Japanese air hostesses English and drinking in expat bars. However, the Yakuza boyfriend is not earned. What I mean is if you are going to throw that in there, you should do more research about the Yakuza and put yo ...more | |
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| Some entertaining posts from the blog -- and also includes the memoir Island of Fantasy which remains one of my favourite ESL teacher memoirs. I would have liked to read a memoir about his time in China. | |
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"A very short audio I found on the www. Thanks to Ian for bringing this to my attention, I knew not of its existence.
Major Nathan Durant was wounded in the Korean War and when discharged from the army lived on a cabin cruiser emotionally adrift. In a" Read more of this review » |
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| Many novels from Argentina are challenging because of the lunfardo slang from Buenos Aires they contain. Cruz presents another challenge with its slangy, criminal-class Spanish from Misiones in the north of Argentina splattered with Guarani. When I r ...more | |
"Brilliant novel about ordinary people living under the Nazi regime in Berlin, some of whom try to oppose the dictatorship. The basic theme of the novel is courage, and although there are some harrowing and bleak moments, and a lot of nail-biting tens"
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“He was twelve hundred down. This was
against the odds, true bad luck, and then it occurred to him the fights could be rigged. He hadn’t been paying attention to the politicians. Were they winning? Could they be ring-ins: invertebrates betting on invertebrates? He wanted to bust their faces, but willed himself to walk out the door. The invertebrates, sooner or later, always won.”
― Buenos Aires Triad
against the odds, true bad luck, and then it occurred to him the fights could be rigged. He hadn’t been paying attention to the politicians. Were they winning? Could they be ring-ins: invertebrates betting on invertebrates? He wanted to bust their faces, but willed himself to walk out the door. The invertebrates, sooner or later, always won.”
― Buenos Aires Triad
“This curve in the river, a stone’s throw from one of the biggest tourist draws in the city, was worth cleaning, but the catamarans didn’t go further upstream to where faecal matter from the barrios and heavy metals from industry were plentiful. The funds to clean up that crap had been embezzled, or so they said. If the river was ever cleaned, journalists would miss using it as a symbol for corruption in the city.”
― Buenos Aires Triad
― Buenos Aires Triad
“Don’t burn your throat with the hot mince, mate,” I said.
“Looks like a bloody pelican.” Dawn had stopped her buttering to stare at Ross eating. Johnno, too, was transfixed and held his mug suspended halfway to his mouth. “Bloody hell, finished it in five seconds.”
The pie-eating show was over before it began and Dawn returned to bending Johnno’s ear.”
― Smoko
“Looks like a bloody pelican.” Dawn had stopped her buttering to stare at Ross eating. Johnno, too, was transfixed and held his mug suspended halfway to his mouth. “Bloody hell, finished it in five seconds.”
The pie-eating show was over before it began and Dawn returned to bending Johnno’s ear.”
― Smoko
“Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.”
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“He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life. ”
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“Mi cabeza es un laberinto oscuro. A veces hay como relámpagos que iluminan algunos corredores. Nunca termino de saber por qué hago ciertas cosas.”
― El túnel
― El túnel
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