Saturday, 30 January 2021

Reflections on learning a language

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  If you have followed my blog you know that one of my post-retirement projects was to learn a new language. Believe me or not, I have been ...
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Sunday, 13 December 2020

Re-reading Lord of the Flies

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  This will be the last book in my 2020 re-reading challenge, and I believe it was the greatest positive surprise. I first read it when I ...
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Wednesday, 9 December 2020

Re-reading The Pickwick Papers

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  I chose The Pickwick Papers because I had re-read most other Dickens’s novels in the past fifty years, some quite recently, and Dickens w...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Re-reading The Power and the Glory

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Yet another book that I was sure I had read, but as it turned out didn’t remember a word of. I think I remember the cover of the paperback...
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Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Re-reading Homo Faber

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Max Frisch’s novel was not on my re-reading list, and I cannot remember why and how I decided to re-read it, but I know that it was an impor...
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Friday, 2 October 2020

Re-reading Margaret Drabble

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Similar to Muriel Spark, I had a Margaret Drabble period when I read everything I could get hold of, which wasn’t easy behind the Iron Curt...
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Thursday, 1 October 2020

Annual report

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Typically, annual reports are written at the end of a calendar year. I have done so myself repeatedly in this blog. But today is a year sinc...
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