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Top Ten Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers Top Ten Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers TTT for March 10 #TopTenTuesday Today, we are having fun with ordinal numbers: Click on the links to access my reviews, or more info on the book 1. The…

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Deux nouvelles inédites de Kenzaburō Ōe, prix Nobel de littérature, découvertes Deux manuscrits de nouvelles inédites de Kenzaburō Ōe, lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature en 1994 et disparu en 2023, ont été récemment découverts au...

Deux nouvelles inédites de #KenzaburōŌe, prix Nobel de littérature, découvertes actualitte.com/a/wo1C5b7X via @actualitte.bsky.social

#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: The Owl, the Duck, and - Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! by #JohnCowperPowys
#Amreading: The Name of the Rose, by #UmbertoEco
#Amlistening to: Lock In, by #JohnScalzi
#TBR Reading next: The Inheritors, by #WilliamGolding

Two Recent Reads: from Taiwan and South Korea I’m continuing the theme of #ReadIndies and the Far East, with two more books from independent publishers and from my favourite part of the world. They couldn’t be more different in sty…

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Anime Pilgrimage in Japan: From Fandom to Infrastructure - Unseen Japan How anime pilgrimage in Japan has evolved from a fan ritual into a coordinated regional strategy to boost tourism.

The Anime Tourism Association releases the annual “Anime Spot 88” list, with the number 88 referencing the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage traditionally associated with Kukai. Each year, 88 destinations connected to anime works are selected through voting.

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Book review: The Owl, the Duck and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! MY VERDICT: A startlingly modern 1930 short-story. Funny, strange, and quietly profound. Yes, imagination and kindness can be more powerful than any official system.

#Book #review: The Owl, the Duck and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! by #JohnCowperPowys #ccbookreviews wordsandpeace.com/2026/02/27/b...
MY VERDICT:
A startlingly modern 1930 short-story. Funny, strange, and quietly profound. Yes, imagination and kindness can be more powerful than any official system.

International Booker Longlist for 2026 The longlist for the International Booker was announced yesterday and, although I am now finding it harder and more expensive to order English-language books, I will attempt to join the wonderful S…

A few initial thoughts about the International Booker Longlist for 2026 findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/i...

International Booker Longlist for 2026 The longlist for the International Booker was announced yesterday and, although I am now finding it harder and more expensive to order English-language books, I will attempt to join the wonderful S…

International Booker Longlist for 2026 findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/i...

Book review: Guilt MY VERDICT: Higashibo is back, with deep characters, cultural richness, and a moral puzzle that keeps you guessing — and hungry!

#Book #review of the upcoming #mystery by #KeigoHigashino: Guilt #Japaneseliterature #Japaneseliteraturechallenge #JLC19 wordsandpeace.com/2026/02/25/b...

MY VERDICT:
Higashibo is back, with deep characters, cultural richness, and a moral puzzle that keeps you guessing — and hungry!

#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: Répondre à la nuit, by #AgnèsLedig
#Amreading: The Owl, the Duck, and - Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! by #JohnCowperPowys
#Amlistening to: Lock In, by #JohnScalzi
#TBR Reading next: The Name of the Rose, by #UmbertoEco

#Book #review The Chinese Maze Mysteries by #RovertvanGulik #JudgeDee #ccbookreviews #theclassicsclub
MY VERDICT:
A #historicalmystery set in 7th century #China. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and utterly unlike anything else. As good as the genre gets.
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#MurderEveryMonday
And the link to my review is here: wordsandpeace.com/2021/11/10/b...

#MurderEveryMonday With such a blog post title you may be panicking that I am going to encourage you all to start murdering someone to kick off your week, and who has that sort of time on a Monday morning? However, y…

Not sure what #MurderEveryMonday is? Here's the link: crossexaminingcrime.com/2023/02/05/m...

2/2 Using lime is so deciving as most if not all readers would think of the lime fruit.
Linden is a common word in the US, many cities named with it, and many streets as well - because of the linden trees on it.
I hope you can see/smell one in bloom. Quite an experience

1/2 Thanks Lory.
I do see now for TILLEUL (by the way, to e before the final l - euel is not a French ending):
"The species are known as linden or lime for the European and Asian species, and linden or basswood for North American species."

I had forgotten that after the famous passage on la #madeleine, #Proust had this beautiful description of #linden / #tilleul (not lime as the old English translation has!!)

In the mail: "A History of Classical China, from Confucius to the First Emperor" by Andrew Seth Meyer, 𝑇𝑜 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: The Chinese Maze Murders, by #RobertVanGulik
#Amreading: Lock In, by #JohnScalzi
#Amlistening to: Cantique du chaos, by #MathieuBelezi
#TBR Reading next: Satantango, by #LászlóKrasznahorkai

#MurderEveryMonday #KeigoHigashino #JapaneseLiterature #JLC19

2026 Non-Fiction Award Announcements If you are looking for nonfiction to add to your reading list this year then you might like to browse these titles which have been nominated for the following awards in 2026. 2026 Women’s Prize for…

2026 #NonFiction Award Announcements bookdout.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/2...

Tokyo Renaissance Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware by now of my deep fascination with all things Japan. So, it will come as no surprise that I am sharing this fabulous animated film from T…

#Tokyo Renaissance #recycling #circulareconomy travelbetweenthepages.com/2026/02/13/t... via @BrianDButler1st

A Guide to Surviving the Great Forgetting: How to (re)train your memory For those of you who prefer to read off paper rather than the screen, we have converted the post into an easily printable pdf file here.

A Guide to Surviving the Great Forgetting: How to (re)train your #memory open.substack.com/pub/schoolof...

As easy as PIE ( Proto-Indo-European ) Many millennia ago, a nomadic groups of humans began to spread across extensive areas of Eurasia, bringing their language with them. About 8,000 years ago, from a homeland likely located on the Pon…

As easy as PIE ( Proto-Indo-European ) #linguistics travelbetweenthepages.com/2026/02/12/a... via @BrianDButler1st

Book review: Moi Fadi, le frère volé MY VERDICT: Brutal but brilliant. Devastating grief meets dark humor, sharp linguistic craft, and striking cultural contrasts.

#Book #review: Moi Fadi, le frère volé
The latest book by #RiadSattouf #nonfiction #graphicnovel #biography
MY VERDICT:
Brutal but brilliant. Devastating grief meets dark humor, sharp linguistic craft, and striking cultural contrasts.
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#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: Moi Fadi le frère volé, by #RiadSattouf
#Amreading: The Chinese Maze Murders, by #RobertVanGulik
#Amlistening to: That Hideous Strength, by #CSLewis
#TBR Reading next: Satantango, by #LászlóKrasznahorkai

30 Day Book Challenge – Day 11 – A book set in a location I’d like to visit #30DayBookChallenge #BookRecommendations I saw this challenge on Nicki’s blog (Secret Library Book Blog) back in November last year. I enjoyed thinking about how I’d answer each of the prompts so I thought I’d give i…

30 Day Book Challenge – Day 11 – A book set in a location I'd like to visit #30DayBookChallenge #BookRecommendations portobellobookblog.com/2026/02/11/3... via @portybelle.bsky.social

The footprints of others: #ReadIndies Detail from a photograph of Middle Path, Kenyon College campus, by Jeanne Griggs. After Kenyon: poems by Jeanne Griggs. Broadstone Books, 2025. “We walk with our heads down in the footprints …

"The footprints of others": review of 'After Kenyon', a sequence of thirty poems by Jeanne Griggs, published by Broadstone Books. #ReadIndies #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-knyn

The Classics Club: what I got for The Classics Spin #43 #theclassicsclub The Classics Club 2024-2029 MY FULL CLASSICS CLUB 5th LIST IS HERE The Classics Spin #43 Twitter hashtag: #ccspin For this Classics spin #43, I got #2, which on my list is Dom Casm…

#theclassicsclub
Check what I got for The Classics Spin #43
Have you read it? Did you like it?
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Dial-A-Poem is back just when we need it Dial-A-Poem is back!  SPIN Magazine explains that Dial-A-Poem was created in 1969 by New York City “multimedia performance poet” John Giorno as way to give people access to the poems of…

#poetry Dial-A-Poem is back just when we need it travelbetweenthepages.com/2026/02/10/d... via @BrianDButler1st