Wednesday, August 12, 2015. About an ex-patriot newspaper in Rome, knocked my socks off. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers. Like so many sophomore efforts, is a major letdown. If you would like your review of any Tom Rachman novel listed here, please leave a comment with a link and I will add it. Tuesday, August 11, 2015.

Auf diese Essaysammlung bin ich ganz zufällig gestoßen, nämlich durch ein anderes Buch, das ich in diesem Jahr gelesen habe.

Gardening, cats, crafts, typography, design, and books, books, books. i am itching to start cleaning up the garden and weeding and moving plants about and all that good stuff. in the meantime, photos. The view from the back stoop, enjoying my mid-day coffee. What i think is very interesting is how many of these books i had never heard of.

These are the abstracts of my time. Wilkie Collins goes to Venice.

I often felt really depressed by the injustice Saburo has to face. It seems he is never lucky and has to work hard for his future which always seems at the edge of being destroyed by some envious or evil characters. I read about his fate from a distance. The book will be released in spring this year. I received a review copy from Alonquin over Netgalley.