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Classics Club #33 (My 2nd Spin)

Joining in with this again, for just the second time, as I’m working my way through a pile of ad hoc classics as well as the 1001 books list. Last spin gave me the momentum to read and enjoy Sebald’s modern classic Austerlitz, so I’m looking forward to finding out what comes up this time. …

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Music review: South African late 20th century classics

Miriam Makeba by Miriam Makeba (1960) I couldn’t spend a month ‘in’ South Africa without listening to some South African music, and this album by Miriam Makeba (who to this point I only knew for ‘Pata Pata’) features in the 1001 albums list, which describes it thus: “traditional Xhosa wedding songs swing into airy African …

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Reading plans for the beginning of 2023

The picture at the top of this post isn’t of my home, sadly, but it’s something to aspire to! As I mentioned in my first post of the year yesterday I’m going back to deep-diving into books and other areas of culture from individual countries, month by month. I didn’t keep this up very well …

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Classics Club – My 1st Spin – Updated!

Joining in with this for the first time, as I’m working my way through a pile of ad hoc classics as well as the 1001 books list. The number that came up is 6, so it’s Austerlitz for me! Feeling a little intimidated, but I’ve got till the end of January. My Book Spin List for the …

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