Last night I went into the kitchen and announced: “I really like Tanzania.” My poor, deluded brain had been locked into dream-space whilst I had been battling it out on Puzzle Quest. While my fingers had been busy pairing up gems and fighting wyverns, another part of me had been in Tanzania on a veranda, [...]
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All my life I have looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
— Ernest HemingwayKarie Bookish
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- Bulgakov Goes Glasgow
August 26, 2008Franz Ferdinand - Love & Destroy - inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita (which you should absolutely read).
- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
August 22, 2008Gorgeous version by Kira Skov and Marie Fisker.
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- Old Men in Love by Alasdair Gray
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- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
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- The Devil in Amber: A Lucifer Box Novel by Mark Gatiss
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