Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
Am reading a book about Oscar Wilde. It’s called Oscar Wilde in America. I can’t remember exactly when I got interested in Oscar Wilde. But he has been a huge presence in my reading of English literature from the Victorian period. He has been…
Read MoreRethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
About the author Michael Graziano (1967-) is an American scientist, novelist, and composer. He was born in Connecticut and grew up partly on a farm in upstate New York. He is now a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. He has published…
Read MoreA Writer’s Diary
A Writer’s Diary by Virgina Woolf. Being Extracts from the Diary of Virgina Woolf. Edited by Leonard Woolf. 1953 The Hogarth Press. London I looked at the receipt from whence I bought it. 2017. This book has been calling my veins since then. I…
Read MoreFederico y Wilde: Readings 2017
MENIPPUS: My dear coz – for Cerberus and Cynic are surely related through the dog – I adjure you by the Styx, tell me how Socrates behaved during the descent. A God like you can doubtless articulate instead of barking, if he chooses.…
Read MoreThe Fifth Impossibility
When I bought this book I was in serious depression mode. I felt I belonged so in glee I pressed ok, buy. I live in a so called ‘foreign’ land and I ache for my ‘motherland’. The attraction was mutual. Then. Time passed. I was…
Read MoreBorrowed Time: An AIDS memoir
I first read Borrowed Time, with that jacket, yes, in the late summer of 1996. My first and only term at SDSU which is to this day, I feel, my true Alma mater. Such was the impact of it that one April the 8th of a 2015 I decided to buy it again in…
Read MoreChurch of Spies The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler
I ought to add a category for books read on my Kindle Amazon owns though I pay for it almost everyday. So I read Church of Spies – The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler. By a dude named Mark Riebling. A lad with a many credentials. He is not…
Read MoreTwo Years, Eight Months and Twenty – Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
Read on Amazon Kindle Voyage device with firmware 5.8.1 Great Britain by Jonathan Cape an Imprint av Vintage Publishing (2015) Penguin Random house Epub ISBN: 9781473523289 Version 1.0 As is customary, the sellers want to sell. Such is the case with…
Read Moredos autores
TS Eliot said “April is the cruelest month” 1922 & August Strindberg said “Av alla åstider är våren erkänt den mest obehagliga” 1877. Hmm. Loosely translated it means that «of all the seasons, Spring is acknowledged to be the…
Read MoreFollowing Hadrian
Autor: Elizabeth Speller Casa editorial: Oxford University Press, USA Idioma: Inglés Año de publicación: 2003 Páginas: 361 Peso: 454g ISBN10: 0195176138 ISBN13: 9780195176131 Este es el segundo libro que leo de Adriano, el primero esta aquí. La verdad…
Read MoreIn Sunshine or in Shadow: Stories by Irish Women
In Sunshine or in Shadow: Stories by Irish Women Edited by Kate Cruise O’Brien and Mary Maher Delta Trade Paperbacks, a division of Random House, Inc. February 1999 ISBN:0-385 33335-8 No es que sea una recensión. A mi lo que me importa relatar es…
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