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quaad commented on Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
Share this More sharing... Facebook Twitter After seven years of exile in Ireland and the …
I was today years old when I learned that in Victorian England, a life-preserver was not a floatation device, but rather a small club to be carried (typically with a small leather strap) and used to beat off attackers.
quaad started reading Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
Share this More sharing... Facebook Twitter After seven years of exile in Ireland and the death of his wife, Phineas …
quaad wants to read The Exhausted of the Earth by Ajay Singh Chaudhary
The Exhausted of the Earth by Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us, …
quaad wants to read The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon
The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Yellow Dog (French: Le Chien jaune) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.
quaad wants to read Can you forgive her? by Anthony Trollope
Can you forgive her? by Anthony Trollope
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey …
quaad started reading God: an Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
quaad started reading Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the …
quaad wants to read The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
quaad quoted The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): “The Way …
It may be well doubted whether upon the whole the telegraph has not added more to the annoyances than to the comforts of life, and whether the gentlemen who spent all the public money without authority ought not to have been punished with special severity in that they had injured humanity, rather than pardoned because of the good they had produced. Who is benefited by telegrams? The newspapers are robbed of all their old interest, and the very soul of intrigue is destroyed.
Who's going to tell him?
quaad wants to read From Farm to Canal Street by Valerie Imbruce
From Farm to Canal Street by Valerie Imbruce
On the sidewalks of Manhattan’s Chinatown, you can find street vendors and greengrocers selling bright red litchis in the summer …
quaad wants to read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
This is an alternate cover edition.
quaad finished reading The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): “The Way We Live Now” (1875) is …
quaad started reading The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): “The Way We Live Now” (1875) is …