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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
00:14
@ClaraDíazSanchez Well, I learnt some basic Spanish many years ago and I haven't done much with it since. But now I'm reading Le Guin's bilingual selection of Mistral's poems, so I also read the Spanish text. And I look up some of the words when I suspect that Le Guin's translation takes some liberties.
I'm using the Pocket Diccionario English–Spanish, Español–Inglés published by Vox that I bought in Madrid 20 years ago.
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
01:03
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Bookworm
Bookworm
12:20
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Q: What would an A.B.C. mean, in London around 1920?

Rand al'ThorI've just finished reading The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (freely/legally available to read online), and the term A.B.C. came up in a couple of places which puzzled me: First of all, he must have a square meal. He had eaten nothing since midday yesterday. He turned into an A.B.C. shop a...

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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
19:40
@b_jonas you're welcome for the agatha-christie Taxonomist badge ;-)
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
19:53
I'm not sure if I've ever read a full Agatha Christie novel before. Pretty gripping stuff, like an early 20th-century Dan Brown. (shock, horror)
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
20:42
@Randal'Thor I've never read one either. Would you like to submit a review to our Tumblr blog? ;-)
If you write a review of The Secret Adversary, I'll write a review of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Deal?
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
21:08
@Bookworm A.B.C in the HNQ.
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
22:34
2024 Booker Prize awarded to Samantha Harvey for her novel Orbital.
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Premio Miguel de Cervantes awarded to Álvaro Pombo (in El Mundo; it's not yet on the English Wikipedia).
El Mundo describes Lee Young-Do as the Korean Tolkien.
Michael Ende was born on this day 95 years ago: Ein Erzähler, so vielgestaltig wie seine Bücher.

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