QUOTE OF THE WEEK 3/10/22 - HERMAN KOCH (AND ‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’)
' "The only historical Dutch figure who ever had an international breakthrough, if you can put it that way, was Anne Frank." ' (Koch, 2012, p.178).
Koch, H. (2012 [2009] ) 'The dinner'. Translated by Sam Garrett. Amazon.com [E-book]. Available at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dinner-Herman-Koch-ebook/dp/B008DSEF6Q (Accessed 2 October 2022).
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SO LONG FAREWELL THE NETHERLANDS
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GOD BLESS ANNE FRANK
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GOODBYE EUROPE
AUSTRIA - MARIA AUGUSTA TRAPP - ‘THE STORY OF THE TRAPP FAMILY’
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BELGIUM - AGATHA CHRISTIE - ‘CURTAIN: POIROT’S FINAL CASE’
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BULGARIA - IVAN VAZOV - ‘UNDER THE YOKE’
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CROATIA - DODIE SMITH - ‘THE STARLIGHT BARKING’ IN ‘THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS’
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REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS - CHRISTY LEFTERI - ‘A WATERMELON, A FISH AND A BIBLE’
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CZECH REPUBLIC - MILAN KUNDERA - ‘THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING’
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DENMARK - ISAK DINESEN/KAREN BLIXEN - ‘BABETTE’S FEAST’
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ESTONIA - KONRAD CARISI - ‘BIG TROUBLE IN TALLIN’ [TALLINN]
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FINLAND - TOVE JANSSON - ‘THE HEMULEN WHO LOVED SILENCE’ IN ‘TALES FROM MOOMINVALLEY’
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FRANCE - LEILA SLIMANI - ‘ADELE’
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GERMANY - ERICH KASTNER - ‘EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES’
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GREECE - ANNE ZOUROUDI - ‘THE DEMONS OF DECEMBER - A GREEK DETECTIVE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY’
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HUNGARY - BARONESS ORCZY - ‘THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL’
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IRELAND - JOHN BANVILLE - ‘SNOW’
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ITALY - SHIRLEY HUGHES - ‘HERO ON A BICYCLE’
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LATVIA - GEORGES SIMENON - ‘PIETR THE LATVIAN’
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LITHUANIA - THOMAS HARRIS - ‘HANNIBAL RISING’
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LUXEMBOURG - CHRIS PAVONE - ‘THE EXPATS’
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MALTA - DASHIELL HAMMETT - 'THE MALTESE FALCOLN'
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/691317541564481536/quote-of-the-week-1822-dashiell-hammett
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SEE ALSO
‘ “I’m talking about the way we - Dutch people, white people, Europeans - look at other cultures.” ‘ (Koch, 2012, p.78).
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FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH WHICH I NEVER USED TO DO BECAUSE EVERY MONTH SHOULD BE BLACK HISTORY MONTH …
BUT SO FAR THIS YEAR I ONLY HAVE
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RUBBISH
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BLACK/BAME HISTORY MONTH 2022
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’ - ANNE FRANK
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PLENTY IN THE LOFT
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CONGRATULATIONS 2022
A.A. MILNE - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 140
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‘THE WASTE LAND’ - T.S. ELIOT - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 100
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VIRGINIA WOOLF - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 140
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JAMES JOYCE - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 140
‘ULYSSES’ - JAMES JOYCE - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 100
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‘THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED’ - F. SCOTT FITZGERALD - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY -100
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JACK KEROUAC - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 100
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‘MIDDLEMARCH’ - GEORGE ELIOT - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 150
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‘THE ENCHANTED APRIL’ - ELIZABETH VON ARNIM - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 100
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KINGSLEY AMIS - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 100
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‘THE VELVETEEN RABBIT’ - MARGERY WILLIAMS - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 100
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‘THE GARDEN PARTY’ - KATHARINE MANSFIELD - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 100
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‘HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE’ - J.K. ROWLING - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 25
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‘MISS MAPP’ - E.F. BENSON - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 100
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‘THE PUZZLER’ - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 50
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‘THE SECRET HISTORY’ - DONNA TARTT - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 30
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‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’ - ANNE FRANK - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 75
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TAYLOR ALERT!!!!
COUNTDOWN TO TAYLOR … ONLY 18 DAYS TO GO UNTIL THE RELEASE OF TAYLOR SWIFT’S SURPRISE NEW ALBUM ‘MIDNIGHTS’ ON 21 OCTOBER
MEANWHILE THIS IS A DUTCH FAN SEWING AND DRESSING AS TAYLOR AT HOME
(I THINK ANNE FRANK WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS)
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PLAY IT AGAIN SAM FOR MORE TAYLOR EXTRAS
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2022
11 EPIC YEARS
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
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books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)
Come Close - Sappho
Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda
Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis
Sula - Toni Morrison
Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee
Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar
Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot
Less - Andrew Sean Greer
The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan
Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong
Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez
Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon
All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo
A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi
Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes
I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux
Bury It - Sam Sax
White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Pulp - Robin Talley
Shit is Real - Aisha Franz
Silencer - Marcus Wicker
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang
Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly
Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar
No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay
Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen
Olio - Tyehimba Jess
The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi
The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory
Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Family Trust - Kathy Wang
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay
Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert
A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena
Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng
The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos
My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao
Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice
Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay
Happiness - Aminatta Forna
Devotions - Mary Oliver
The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory
The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri
Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz
Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun
The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal
All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva
Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi
On the Come Up - Angie Thomas
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan
See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez
For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han
The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor
The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
Sunburn - Laura Lippman
The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara
Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter
Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson
They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera
The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
Severance - Ling Ma
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones
Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth
How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs
All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor
Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor
The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender
Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi
Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson
The Ensemble - Aja Gabel
My Education - Susan Choi
More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera
Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue
Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi
Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao
Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann
History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera
Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds
The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib
The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf
If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel
Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan
What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman
The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka
Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui
The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso
The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen
White Tears - Hari Kunzru
Electric Arches - Eve Ewing
The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay
Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler
Soft Science - Franny Choi
The White Card - Claudia Rankine
Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray
Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni
The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing
Gruel - Bunkong Tuon
Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker
That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal
Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz
Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester
Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan
The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark
Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard
Selected Poems - Langston Hughes
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove
Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks
Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni
The Black God’s Drums - P. Djèlí Clark
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley
Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks
Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler
After Disasters - Viet Dinh
Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck
Teeth - Aracelis Girmay
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson
Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva
A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo
Magical Negro - Morgan Parker
Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik
Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction
Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks
She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols
The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson
Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib
The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima
Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob
Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz
Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn
Virgin - Analicia Sotelo
Easy Prey - Catherine Lo
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali
Intercepted - Alexa Martin
Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali
Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee
The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar
My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame
Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Internment - Samira Ahmed
Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar
With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo
Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith
The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo
If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser
Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich
Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin
Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi
The Tradition - Jericho Brown
About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau
Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen
Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse
Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev
Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin
When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen
The New Testament - Jericho Brown
Fumbled - Alexa Martin
If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann
Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson
Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley
Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro
The Bride Test - Helen Hoang
Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee
Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones
The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt
Naturally Tan - Tan France
Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau
Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian
I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya
Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson
I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest
Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby
Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond
The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden
Miracle Creek - Angie Kim
Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin
Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo
The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 13/12/21 - BARONESS ORCZY
‘ ... cold game-pie and iced champagne ... ‘ (Orczy, 2018, p.120).
REFERENCE
Orczy, B. (2018 [1905] ) ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’. London: Penguin English Library.
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MMMM …
‘ “ …. that cursed Englishman, the Scarlet Pimpernel.” ‘ (Orczy, 2018, p.6).
HAD TO MAKE DO WITH MINI PORK PIES AND SPARKLING WATER INSTEAD
BUT THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE
https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/mains/the-ritz-game-pie
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SEE ALSO
‘ ... the whole of the continent of Europe was a den of immorality ... ‘ (Orczy, 2018, p.13).
OOO LA LA
SO LONG FAREWELL HUNGARY
https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBMVy6tQQB8
VIDEO
BUT HELLO TO THE SCARLET POINSETTIA CHRISTMAS AT BASINGSTOKE’S FESTIVAL PLACE
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WHICH IS NOT UNLIKE THIS
BUT ISN’T THIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagallis_arvensis
GOODBYE EUROPE
AUSTRIA - MARIA AUGUSTA TRAPP - ‘THE STORY OF THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/644470319786213377/quote-of-the-week-1321-maria-augusta-trapp
BELGIUM - AGATHA CHRISTIE - ‘CURTAIN: POIROT’S FINAL CASE’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/646993592173346816/quote-of-the-week-29321-agatha-christie
BULGARIA - IVAN VAZOV - ‘UNDER THE YOKE’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/647624227557605376/quote-of-the-week-5421-ivan-vazov-now-hes
CROATIA - DODIE SMITH - ‘THE STARLIGHT BARKING’ IN ‘THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/650159450297155584/quote-of-the-week-3521-dodie-smith-thats
REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS - CHRISTY LEFTERI - ‘A WATERMELON, A FISH AND A BIBLE’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/652677832837939200/quote-of-the-week-31521-christy-lefteri-have
CZECH REPUBLIC - MILAN KUNDERA - ‘THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/655873944561287168/quote-of-the-week-5721-milan-kundera
DENMARK - ISAK DINESEN/KAREN BLIXEN - ‘BABETTE’S FEAST’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/658317097399664640/quote-of-the-week-2821-isak-dinesen-aka-karen
ESTONIA - KONRAD CARISI - ‘BIG TROUBLE IN TALLIN’ [TALLINN]
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/662216353503166464/quote-of-the-week-6921-konrad-carisi-i
FINLAND - TOVE JANSSON - ‘THE HEMULEN WHO LOVED SILENCE’ IN ‘TALES FROM MOOMINVALLEY’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/663491485881286656/quote-of-the-week-27921-tove-jansson-once
FRANCE - LEILA SLIMANI - ‘ADELE’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/664757761140244480/httpsenwikipediaorgwikile%C3%AFlaslimani-quote
GERMANY - ERICH KASTNER - ‘EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/669115011859398656/quote-of-the-week-291121-erich-kastner-there
GREECE - ANNE ZOUROUDI - ‘THE DEMONS OF DECEMBER - A GREEK DETECTIVE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY’
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/669735147987501056/quote-of-the-week-61221-anne-zouroudi-you
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS
‘ “Zounds, my dear fellow ... did you ever see such a beastly day? Demmed climate this.” ‘ (Orczy, 2018, p.47).
TYPICALLY MILD AND DAMP ACTUALLY
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CHRISTMAS 2021
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/669735147987501056/quote-of-the-week-61221-anne-zouroudi-you
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/669115011859398656/quote-of-the-week-291121-erich-kastner-there
HO HO HO
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/hohoho
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TO SAM FOR
REMINDING ME THAT IT IS THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF TAYLOR THE MAGNIFICENT’S ‘EVERMORE’
‘ … and Tis the damn season is the best Christmas song ever’ (Plommer, 2021a).
AND LETING ME KNOW THAT TODAY IS TAYLOR’S BIRTHDAY (WHAT?)
‘Also today is Taylor’s birthday and I made a list of my fav lyrics’ (Plommer, 2021b).
WELL PLAY IT AGAIN SAM - AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR
‘TIS THE DAMN SEASON’ - THE EMPTY SPACE VERSION
'We could call it even
Even though I'm leaving
And I'll be yours for the weekend
'Tis the damn season' (Swift and Desser, 2020).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-8jzND_ys
VIDEO
‘ALL TOO WELL - 10 MINUTE VERSION’ - THE LYRICS VIDEO
‘And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?
Just between us, did the love affair maim you, too?' (Swift and Rose, 2021).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxrwjOtIag
VIDEO
REFERENCES
Plommer, S. (2021a). Email to Pauline Courtenay, 11 December.
Plommer, S. (2021b). Email to Pauline Courtenay, 13 December.
Swift, T. and Dessner, A. (2020) in AZLyrics 'Tis the damn season'. Available at: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/taylorswift/tisthedamnseason.html (Accessed 13 December 2021).
Swift, T. and Rose, L. (2021) in AZLyrics ‘All too well (10 minute version) (Taylor’s version) (from the vault)’. Available at: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/taylorswift/alltoowell10minuteversiontaylorsversionfromthevault.html (Accessed 13 December 2021).
PLAY IT AGAIN SAM FOR MORE TAYLOR EXTRAS
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https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/664757761140244480/httpsenwikipediaorgwikile%C3%AFlaslimani-quote
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/664119007964708864/quote-of-the-week-41021-roxane-gay-every-day
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/655873944561287168/quote-of-the-week-5721-milan-kundera
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/652677832837939200/quote-of-the-week-31521-christy-lefteri-have
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/651436799241142272/quote-of-the-week-17521-anita-brookner
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https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/638124844568936448/quote-of-the-week-211220-charles-dickens-a
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https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/635030849800241152/quote-of-the-week-161120-bernadine-evaristo
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2021
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/631780587101929472/quote-of-the-week-121020-ibi-zoboi-how-do
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