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  The Book of The City of Ladies by Christine de Pezan is ranked 702 nd on The Greatest Books of All Time site, nevertheless, it does not make it in my top 2,000, and let us not try to figure it for the first 5k, and here you have my review, ‘if you choose to take it, or accept it, which is that line from Mission Impossible, when they have a new task for Tom Cruise, and then he will go hang from some plane or other, for real, he does his own stunts, well, he is the most prominent figure in Scientology – I should not get into that, people may get offended, and then I had my schism with Goodreads -by the way, I am there, temporarily, maybe, as Realini Ionescu, if you read this on the blog, if it is the other way, then this is the link to the blog I use now https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html - so they may make a fuss over some criticism (or other) of religion, if the public cries out     7 out of 10   In Miss...

  Look at Me by Anita Brookner 10 out of 10 Having read the marvelous Hotel du Lac by the same author, winner of the Man Booker Prize, I have not been so surprised to find that Look at Me is fantastic, riveting, absorbing, but also heartbreaking, sad, even hard to read at time, when the protagonist seems to be dying within. The narrator is also the heroine of the phenomenal story, young, intelligent, kind, tolerant, shy, generous, polite, timid Frances Hinton, called by friends and colleagues at the library Fanny. She works in a rather depressing environment, where they find paintings, all descriptions of diseases and then they file them, for the use of the doctors, two of the major characters in the novel, Doctor Nick Fraser and later on, but more important also, Doctor James Anstey. Olivia is a good friend of the heroine and had suffered an accident that terribly affected her body, but as the insightful, compassionate, wondrous Fanny would remark when the superficial, cruel, ofte...

  Fanny and Alexander written and directed by Ingmar Bergman Another version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E    and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ This is a chef d’oeuvre. Critics, scholars and experts have included this dazzling film among the best ever made and it is perhaps only to be expected. It won four Academy Awards, the Golden globe for Best Foreign Language Film, BAFTA, Cesar and so many other awards. When I first saw it, I thought this is the best film that I have ever seen. If not the best, certainly among the very best. And it is so different from Persona, Through A Glass Darkly, Scenes From A Marriage and so many, if not most of Bergman’s creations. For a good part of the film, there are more similarities with the comedy Smiles Of A summer Night, with the ...