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Elizabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elizabeth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Elizabeth Murphy
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Inspiration for The Weather Diviner
If it hadn’t been for the opportunity to read my mother’s diary, this story would never have been told. Her first entry was as follows: Sitting at our table at Hill Crest. New Year’s Day. No snow. Had a dance at Hall tonight. My mother, eighteen-year-old Maisie, was at home at Branch, Newfoundland, on holiday from her clerk-stenographer position at the Fort Pepperrell base where she worked from 19
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The Weather Diviner
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An Imperfect Librarian
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"LE VARIAZIONI QUENEAU
 Nel 1996 quattordici registi italiani furono coinvolti in un progetto temerario e sciagurato ampiamente ispirato al libro di Queneau: stesso titolo e stesso principio, cioè partire da una situazione narrativa riassunta in poche f" Read more of this review » |
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"Oh my goodness. This book is incredibly fine. Now I know what the phrase ‘razor sharp wit’ really means. On a sentence level the novel delivers one perfect zinger after another. Dolan is particularly good at capturing the way men talk to women whom t"
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2 ½ stars (rounded up to 3) “I felt I had hitherto woefully misdirected my energies in attempting to cultivate a personality. If you didn’t have one then that left more room for everyone else’s.” With so many professional" Read more of this review » |
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"This was a great book about a very interesting time in history for Newfoundland and Labrador and for women."
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The military setting was intriguing and interesting, especially in the story "Art of Camouflage." The tension is very high in the story. I also liked references throughout the book to Goose Bay, The Big Land (Labrador): taking frozen-stiff clothes off ...more |
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The version I read does not appear to be available on GRs. Mine was by Jean-Marcel Paquette (VLB Editeur) https://www.jeanmarcel.info/la-chanso... The poem was brought to life in a film by the same name and featuring Klaus Kinski. ...more |
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| Around the World ...: Canada | 41 | 1187 | Jan 11, 2025 09:36PM |
“Newfoundland is a country where wind and fire make vicious company, but truly the wind will always make the country one of the “Big Breath.” The wind never lets people off. It bends them double, sniffs at them like dogs tempted by a bone; it snatches at the fashionable hat and the new hair-do; and in pioneer days it is recorded that the settlers went out tied together. Once, it is told, that a wrestler came to Newfoundland, and he became so tormented by the wind, that he stopped in the street to fight it.”
― The Caribou Hut: Enriched edition. The Story of a Newfoundland Hostel
― The Caribou Hut: Enriched edition. The Story of a Newfoundland Hostel
