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What could be more festive than a Houellebecq novel about a guy taking a sex vacation to Thailand? lol

What is Christmas season without yet another Hemingway biography to read?

So far it's excellent.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Book of Lost Books discovered in Danish Archive.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bo...

Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. A link to an interview with Sylvia Whitman follows. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/Jgofy1caXsU?t=5

A Brief History of the Strand Bookstore in NYC!

A Brief History of the Strand Bookstore in NYC!
https://youtu.be/-Wl9zhC-snY

Somehow my review and rating of The Frozen Thames, even the fact of me having read it, have vanished from Goodreads.

Happy New Year!

If I, mere shadow, have offended,
Consider but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
Whilst my bookish thoughts did appear.
And this temporaneous and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Readers, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, myself will mend:

(Part two)
And, as I am an honest old grump,
If we have earned luck
Now to 'scape scandal's tongue,
I will make amends ere long;
Else myself a liar call;
So, good night and farewell unto you all.
Give me your hands, let us part as friends,
And Terry shall restore amends.

So far a nice attempt to tell Zelda's story. But I don't feel the author has captured Zelda's voice. Also, there is no feeling of atmosphere, no sense that the reader is experiencing life as it may have been in the 1920's.