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Tag: 1971

Don’t Look Now | Daphne Du Maurier #UKshortstories

11 May 202311 May 2023 ~ Brona's Books ~ 12 Comments

This week is Daphne Du Maurier Reading Week hosted by HeavenAli with Liz @Adventures in Reading assisting in the collation of links. In recent years I have worked my way through DDM's short story collections, often only 2-3 stories at a time. For the 2023 DDM Reading Week I have started on the stories in … Continue reading Don’t Look Now | Daphne Du Maurier #UKshortstories

The Congress | Jorge Luis Borges #ARGshortstory

23 August 202224 August 2022 ~ Brona's Books ~ 25 Comments

Alejandro Ferri is my name. I truly am being stalked by Jorge Luis Borges. Everywhere I turn, there he is! Again! The latest incident occured on the 1st August when I opened my copy of Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse to complete my Edith Trilogy Readalong. Frank ambitiously included six, yes SIX, epigraphs. The first … Continue reading The Congress | Jorge Luis Borges #ARGshortstory

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

22 July 2016 ~ Brona's Books ~ 7 Comments

Angle of Repose is Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer prize winning novel from 1971.Stegner created a part fact/part fiction story of life in 1880's America based on the real letters and journals of Mary Hallock Foote. After his book was published, a controversy brewed with some of Foote's descendants about how Stegner went about this merging of … Continue reading Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

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