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Citations by Francois Bluche is an easy, entertaining book – you find thousands of notes on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are the main attraction

iunie 21, 2026

Citations by Francois Bluche is an easy, entertaining book – you find thousands of notes on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are the main attraction 10 out of 10 I have already written https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/de-la-cezar-la-churchill-by-francois.html about this, and I forgot, nevertheless, the conclusion is the same: this is a great read, and that should be the end of the ‘review’, except I will keep mumbling here, and you have been warned, spoiler alert! I am thinking to include here the joke about Mitza and her visitors: these two ladies who could be my age visit Mitza, and the host offers some coffee, then again, after some ten minutes, and again, because she says ‘what kind of a person am I? Not to make some coffee?’ when they are out, the other two ladies say: ...

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Quotes from Breathing Lessons

iunie 21, 2026

It was Serena who'd told Maggie that marriage was not a Rock Hudson-Doris Day movie. It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth the effort. Now this: to have your husband die. It made Maggie nervous, although she knew it wasn't catching. There's times I think, Shoot, maybe I ought to just fire off another telegram. Jesse, I'd say, / love you still, and it begins to seem I always will. He wouldn't even have to answer; it's just something I want him to know. Or I'll be down in Baltimore at my sister's and I'll think, Why not drop by and visit him? Just walk in on him? Just see what happens?" "Oh, you ought to," Maggie said. "But he'd say, 'What are you doing here But Maggie remembered, and sometimes, feeling the glassy sheet of Ira's disapproval, she grew numbly, wearily certain that there was no such thing on this earth as real change. Y...

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About Ashenden by Somerset Maugham 10 out of 10

iunie 20, 2026

About Ashenden by Somerset Maugham 10 out of 10 Somerset Maugham is one of the best two writers ever, the other one is Marcel Proust, and therefore reading Ashenden- even in an abridged form this time, to be revisited later for the full enjoyment – was an absolute joy…we can find Of Human Bondage on The modern Library’s 100 Best Novels https://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/ Ashenden is a secret agent enlisted during World War I – and inspired by the experience of Somerset Maugham as an intelligence officer – and based in Switzerland, although there would be at least one story that takes him as far as Russia, on the brink of the Bolshevik Revolution, when the agent will have an unlimited supply of money, but the impossible task of trying to do something about the unstoppable Apocalypse of the Bolshevik Revolution – a calamity that would propagate to our lands, albeit later – this is a catastrophe for which we still pay so much and wi...

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A note on Asterix

iunie 20, 2026

75 out of 100 for Asterix and Obelix Mission Cleopatra | realini

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Cold Mountain

iunie 20, 2026

Cold Mountain That movie was filmed near my former house, in Rasnov. I made the effort to go to the cinema to see it, albeit at the time I was only spending few days in Bucharest, only once every few months. What a disappointment! A very good cast, albeit Zelwegger was not a favorite of mine and she did win the Oscar for this failed production. Kidman was wasted as was Philip Seymour Hoffman. I am reminded of the film by the cold of today and the beauty of the scenery in the forests. I walked the mile or so that separate the Lycee from the bus station, with tens of cars moving at a slow pace, as the road was covered with branches and the snow not yet removed. This experience will be repeated tomorrow, even if the salt thrown on the street might make the experience less positive, if dirt lands on my clothes from the speeding cars.

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Nadja by Andre Breton is ranked 50th on Le Monde’s Best 100 Novels, it is 394th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and is also part of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read compilation, but notwithstanding that, it does not make it on my Top 300, or 6,000 for that matter, mea culpa for that…you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, perhaps ten items might be worth the trouble

iunie 20, 2026

Nadja by Andre Breton is ranked 50 th on Le Monde’s Best 100 Novels, it is 394 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and is also part of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read compilation, but notwithstanding that, it does not make it on my Top 300, or 6,000 for that matter, mea culpa for that…you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, perhaps ten items might be worth the trouble 6 out of 10 for no good reason Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html wrote about ‘The Checkoff formula: you take a lot of characters, all miserable because of something they won't do, and let them talk without influencing each other for three acts, and at the last moment… You introduce some arbitrary calamity, or some proposed change l...

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