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Paul Alkazraji
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'Beni’s Game'. A short story by Paul Alkazraji.
Three Albanian words:
shiko – well, look
budalla – stupid
mirë – good
Luan rammed the gears of the Mercedes from second to fourth, and surged down the wrong side of the airport road past a line of cars, flashing his headlights. Jude was thrust back deep into the leather seat with the acceleration. The sky ahead of them had streaks of lilac and molten iron below the black heights as a lone aircra Read more of this blog post »
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The Silencer
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The Migrant
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Heart of a Hooligan
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Love Changes Everything: Seven Remarkable Real Life Stories
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Christ and the Kalashnikov
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'I also thoroughly appreciate that our main character is not only a pastor, but he puts his living faith, hope and trust in a God of love and redemption. This is more than a battle between good versus evil; it's a study in lives struggling with integrity—making choices from the heart, and connecting with others as if your life depends on it.' https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... |
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"4 stars for book 21 in the series. This book, like the others in the series, is a gentle mystery-no sex, violence or bad words. There are 2 issues for Grace Makutsi and Precious Ramotswe to deal with in this book: Charlie, part time employee of the N"
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Photo of Jeremy Corbyn by Garry Knight. You Raise Me Up With the inauguration of a new US President, there are sincere Christians both celebrating and lamenting US politics with all the heart-felt euphoria and anger of any major sporting fi ...more |
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'Loja e Benit' nga Paul Alkazraji.
Një tregim e shkurtër e vendosur në Aeroportin Ndërkombëtar të Tiranës. ‘Luani ngjeshi marshin e Mercedesit nga i dy ...more " |
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier... Albania. (Has spoilers.) [image] Oldman as Smiley. ‘Tinker, Tailor...’ is an enduring Cold War thriller given fresh life by the 2011 film and Gary Oldman’s performance as George Smiley: brilliant spy and totally inadequate man ...more |
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A far, far better historical thriller... [image] Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton in the 1958 film version. ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...’ begins Charles Dickens’ thrilling novel set in England and France during the turbulent ye ...more |
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My review of ‘Love and War in the Apennines’ by Eric Newby.
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“Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.”
― Love Changes Everything: Seven Remarkable Real Life Stories
― Love Changes Everything: Seven Remarkable Real Life Stories
“He sat down with a dour face. “Ah, Shqipëria!” he said dropping his head. “Albania will never become Albania with Albanians in it!” He glanced at Jude. “Don’t ask.”
― The Silencer
― The Silencer
“We can’t all be Byronic adventurers like you Jude. Have you been wrestling with any brigands in the mountains there?”
“No, but you’ve got to watch the drivers! Funny you should mention the poetic lord. He used to take his holidays down here, you know?”
“What… picking up last-minute bargains with ‘EasyFrigate’?”
― The Silencer
“No, but you’ve got to watch the drivers! Funny you should mention the poetic lord. He used to take his holidays down here, you know?”
“What… picking up last-minute bargains with ‘EasyFrigate’?”
― The Silencer
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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
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Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
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“Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. ”
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― A Tale of Two Cities
“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
― Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
― Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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