The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
Maugham talks about writing, reading, theatre, art, philosophy and reflects on his life as an artist.
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kelliebooksblog
- Jun 24, 2019
- 1 min
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
I love this book so much that I'm posting it just to say so. I'll add more content later.
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
Granta Publications, 2014 Essays dealing with relationships between men and women, wherein women are still getting shafted but there's...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu by Honoré de Balzac
Attention every art student or anyone who has ever had difficulty expressing an idea artistically. Read this short story. I bought it at...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
Seventeen by Kenzabuo Oé
Editions Gallimard 2015 (French translation) I read the French version of this short story which I happened upon at my friend Becky’s...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami, 2003 English Translation Vintage, 2005 This book, picked up along with Oé’s short story Seventeen from my friend and...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2019
- 6 min
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
Published 1935 My copy Routledge Classics 2006 (given to Max for his birthday however) Introduction copyright 1996 Howard Woodhouse This...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Penguin Random House, 2018 I just finished Obama’s book and was surprised to find it was one of those books which make you feel sad it’s...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Volume 3 (1944-1969)
Volume 3 Simon and Schuster 1969 This third and last volume of Bertrand Russell’s autobiography covers the last two decades of Russell's...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 2 min
Faith by Jimmy Carter
Simon & Schuster, 2018 Former US President Jimmy Carter talks about his religious faith and his work as Sunday school teacher,...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
Faber & Faber 2018 Before my friend Sue joined the London public library to reduce her massive book budget, she let me take a look in her...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs, Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ishiguro gave this Lecture in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017 for his «novels of...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
Harvard University Press 2017 Talks by Toni Morrison delivered at Harvard University on "the literature of belonging". Forward by...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 5 min
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Vol. 2 (1914-1944)
Volume 2 Atlantic - Little, Brown & Company, 1967 In Volume 2 of his autobiography, which is almost as fascinating as Vol 1, Russell...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 2 min
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 1 (1872-1914)
Volume 1 Atlantic - Little Brown & Company, 1967 This is another of my random book choices found at a book giveaway. I picked it up...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 Riveting, well-written behind the scenes account of the War and Post-war reconstruction period in Iraq (2004)....
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 3 min
French Ways and Their Meaning by Edith Wharton
First published 1919 This work was written during World War I to help American soldiers understand French culture in comparison with...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
Hold me Tight by Dr Sue Johnson
Little, Brown Book Group, 2008 Couples guide to building loving relationships through Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT). Explores...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein
HarperCollins Publishers, 2016 Describes the “new sexual landscape” (hook-up culture, rape culture, drinking, consent, etc.) based on...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
My Life So Far by Jane Fonda
Random House, 2005 Autobiography. Might be worth a skim. I'm glad I read it. Some interesting thoughts on families (Fonda's mother killed...
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