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  78 out of 100 for Matilda | realini

  I Like It Here by Kingsley Amis – The Magister Ludi is one of my favorite authors, I have read and enjoyed I Like It Here for the second time now – you have reviews on more than twenty books by this fantastic writer and thousands on works from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   10 out of 10   I am reading the magnum opera of Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html again, this time I try to use some method, while the first time there was no plan, order, now I am trying to approach the novels chronologically, in the order of their publishing   Garnet Bowen is the hero of this novel and I identify with him to a large extend, first of all, I also Like It Here – he prefers England, just like I have not left my town in what, maybe fifteen years, and even then, that was a two day trip, otherwise it i...

  The Opposing Shore is ranked 594 th on The Greatest Books of All Time and that is why I have tried to approach it, without success: it does not make it on my GOAT list, not if we stop at the ten thousand mark – nevertheless, you find reviews on books from the aforementioned list on my blog, thousands of them https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and notes on films as well   6 out of 10   This was not for me, albeit, if I were to take the time, find some resilience, patience somewhere, who knows, it may have worked (wonders?) as it is, Seneca https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-shortness-of-life-by-seneca.html said that ‘life is not short, if we manage time in the proper way, and not waste it’   It was not like that, but you can google for the exact quote, the gist of it being in this particular situation that maybe The Opposing Shore is fantastic for you, it was for many critics, ergo the exact position ...

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  Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac of The French Academy, winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952 - “The novel is Mauriac's best known work, and was described as "outstanding" in the biography that accompanied his Nobel Literature Prize citation” – it is ranked 708 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and 35 th on The Le Monde’ 100 Books of The Century – you find thousands of reviews of books from those two and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   This acclaimed novel has reminded me of Anatomy of a Fall https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/01/one-of-top-three-films-of-2023-anatomy.html one of the top three films of 2023, in which a woman is accused of killing her husband, and we have a trial to decide the verdict   However, this book starts with…the acquittal, Therese is not guilty – I understand that the narrative is based on a real case, in which t...

  Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega – you find thousands of reviews of plays and books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, plus notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   6 out of 10   This play somehow fell into my lap…of course it did not, it is just a manner of speaking, and sometime a change is required   Stefan Klein https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-science-of-happiness-how-our-brains.html is the fabulous author of The Science of Happiness, in which he argues for the need to change, also explained under The Lasagna Effect by Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar: he likes lasagna, but not all day, every day There are some aspects of this play which I liked, the people of the village of Fuenteovejuna prove to be brave, although in the first part, I was thinking that this monster, Fernán Gómez de Guzm...