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The other book is lesser known to me—Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin. It’s a crime thriller set in medieval England. It introduces the compelling Adelia—abandoned as a child, adopted by doctors, trained in Salerno (a center of learning), and now a woman of modern sen...
for its long descriptions of Roman museums and the artworks therein, leading it to be actually used as a guide book; from about 1865 to 1920, English and American tourists would make their own choice of illustrations by selecting between 15 and 150 small photographic prints sold by Italian ...
computer screen, my insides vacillating between numbness and nauseous churning. No words come out. Nothing seems good enough or clear enough or worthwhile. A waste of time, all of it, petty creative ambitions gone underground while I wait for my heart to thaw.Why does the muse hate me so?
Someday we’ll have bookcases and the dictionary will be returned to its place of honor. Anyway.Mother Readerhas a link to an entertaining vocabularyquiz. My score was 78%. What’s yours? 21 June 2007 Scissors I work in an eccentric building. We still have elevator operators, because the...
Skip to content About My Bookshelf Plans What’s Cooking? Smoothiessell by date Featured Most of my life I’ve been obsessed with the obituaries. Children have a natural fascination with death and gore. The first headline I remember reading was about Marilyn Monroe’s death. Well, it ...
MuseificationThe SacredProfanationNomadismUlysses became part of the literary canon almost from the moment it was published, and it did not take long before it was turned into a literary monument. As such, it is often celebrated and commented upon; it is perhaps less eagerly visited, except ...