There were periods in this book where I would have rated it 6 out of 5, but then there were some arduous times and un-credible characters who spoilt the experience. The philosophical treatises became pretentious and boring eg. the Darwin treatises. Alma, Henry and Mrs de Groot were superb charact...
تم بحمد الله :)14-septemper 2014و لم تأتني القدرة حتي يومنا هذا لأسطر عن هذا العمل شيئًا . -------------------------------حصلت عليها كهدية لعيد ميلادي الواحد و العشرين..طالعت الجملة المسطورة علي الغلاف: "إليزابيث جيلبرت، امرأة تبحث عن كل شئ" .و تخيلت وجهها الباسم و هي تخاط...
It turns out Annie Proulx went too far in "The Shipping News." You don't have to go all the way to Newfoundland to find irresistibly quirky people living off the cold sea. Elizabeth Gilbert found them in Maine.In "Stern Men," her first novel, Gilbert describes the contentious battles between lobs...
Bereft and bewildered, my soul reached to the Divine for help. The Divine answered me with a book called Eat Pray Love. After the dissolution of my romantic dreams, I had taken to my bed like a fictional Victorian woman. And I began to read this book where a wonderful friend named Liz shared her ...
. . I was much gratified to hear that the first editions of my book were entirely sold out . . . I wish to know if you have an agent in New Orleans and in the towns on the Mississippi, there it will sell better than other places . . . send me 10 copies as I wish that number for distribution among...
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A laconic, handsome, tense sort of man, Fakhri had been introduced to me as a police officer whose loves were literature and the city of his birth. Speaking in Persian, Afghanistan’s literary language, we discussed Kabul and the writers and poets who live there. So much had happened to the city i...
Truly, it’s so much odd and satisfying fun, trying to figure all this out. Or maybe I’m just enjoying this surreal moment in my life so much because I happen to be falling in love, and that always makes the world seem delightful, no matter how insane your reality. I always liked Felipe. But there...
