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• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

  
  Fleur Fisher reads — Authority: 125
  Some books stay with you. They make you pause, think and smile whenever they come into your mind. For me, this is definitely one of those books. It is simple, gentle and character-driven, and it is also moving because it has so much insight into the human condition. The Housekeeper is a single mother with a ten-year ...
  20 hours ago

• Hollow cake

  
  I-YOUniverse — Authority: 119
  I tried my baking skills the other day. I had an orange-cranberry muffin mix, which called for an added cup of water. Flush with the success of earlier efforts, I added a protein booster whey powder, a couple eggs, and two tablespoons of oil. After 25 minutes in the oven, the knife came out clean. We cut the cake ...
  3 days ago

• IdeaBounty seeks entrepreneurial leaders

  
  Snoo.ws — Authority: 132
  The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation has launched a creative brief, Find Us The Minds That Will Shape The Future , with the help of IdeaBounty.com, a platform for crowdsourcing creative ideas to develop a complete and targeted communications campaign that works to make people aware of the fellowship program and increase ...
  5 days ago

• World Record Price For 1477 Printing of Ptolemy’s Map of the World

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 519
  A copy of the extremely scarce and considered unobtainable 1477 Bologna printing of Ptolemy ’s world map fetched a record price of 210,000 Euros ($312,000) plus premium at Reiss & Sohn auctions in Konigstein, Germany last week. The map shows the whole hitherto known part of the world and is the first ...
  1 week ago

• NEWS: Halloween Sale @ Orbis, Jakarta

  
  STREEThing — Authority: 598
  Orbis in Jakarta is now having a sale over the Halloween weekend to clear off some of their past season stuff. Head over to check out the bargains on clothing and accessories from the likes of 10Deep, Flying Coffin, Ransom Clothing and In4mation. Details on the flyer after the jump. The Halloween Sale will happen ...
  2 weeks ago

• Orbis trusts in battered LPTs

  
  Real Estate Buzz — Authority: 156
  BARGAIN hunting Orbis Holdings has emerged as the largest shareholder in at least five of the worst-performing property trusts listed on the ASX. Excerpt from: Orbis trusts in battered LPTs
  2 weeks ago

• I Served the King of England – Bohumil Hrabal (Book and DVD)

  
  Farm Lane Books Blog Farm Lane Books Blog — Authority: 127
    Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson I Served the King of England was the  Claire’s choice  for Savidge Reads’ and Kimbofo’s book group , but we all agreed that it wasn’t anything special. We were surprised that it featured on the  Guardian’s 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read  list, as we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sunday Salon: the Back in the Saddle Post

  
  A Striped Armchair — Authority: 602
  On Thursday, I broke out of my reading slump. It was all rather sudden; I looked up at the clock to realise I’d spent the last three hours engrossed in books, which hadn’t happened in forever. Up until then, I’d finished precisely one book all week: the one-CD Neil Gaiman Audio Collection. Since then, I’ve ...
  4 weeks ago

• 2666 – Roberto Bolaño. Part 5: The Part About Archimboldi

  
  Farm Lane Books Blog Farm Lane Books Blog — Authority: 127
  Steph and Claire are hosting a read-along for the highly acclaimed book, 2666, by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. The novel is 900 pages long, and divided into 5 parts. We are reading one part a month. Here are my thoughts on Part 5: The Part About Archimboldi After nearly 6 months I have finally finished ...
  4 weeks ago

• Le Deuxième Souffle

  
  Caravana de recuerdos — Authority: 114
  Le Deuxième Souffle (The Criterion Collection DVD, 2008) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville France, 1966 In French with English subtitles Although I havent posted about a movie here in months, I guess this is as good a place as any to announce that Ill be coming out of retirement for a half-dozen or ...
  4 weeks ago

• Orbis Terrarum 2009 complete

  
  Tammy's Book Nook — Authority: 112
  This challenge was again hosted by Bethany of Dreadlock Girl . You can check out the challenges dedicated blog here . The challenge was to read 10 books by 10 different authors from 10 countries (authors country of origin or where he/she lives). Heres what I ended up reading: The Caliphs House: A Year in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nana by Emile Zola

  
  Tammy's Book Nook — Authority: 112
  Title : Nana Author : Émile Zola First Published : 1880 No. of Pages : 441 Synopsis (from B&N) : "One of the founders of literary naturalism, Émile Zola thought of his novels as a form of scientific research into the effects of heredity and environment. He created characters, gave them richly detailed ...
  4 weeks ago

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