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Reading catch-up: Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind

October 21, 2015January 19, 2016by Jenny May AcklandLeave a Comment on Reading catch-up: Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind

Book 44 for the year is A Strangeness in My Mind. I love Orhan Pamuk's novels but I haven't read them all because not all are, well, accessible. The ones I've tried and not finished: My Name is Red and The Black Book. The ones I have, and have loved them all: Snow, The Museum of [...]

Books, Fiction, Miscellany, Publishing, Reading

Monday musings

July 13, 2015July 13, 2015by Jenny May Ackland7 Comments on Monday musings

Melbourne is very cold at the moment so I'm sitting propped in bed, 'working'. And as usual I have a bunch of pages open in my Mozilla browser. I'm always envious of anybody who has gotten to see The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. I know I'll get there, and I've known about it since it opened. [...]

Books, Learning, Miscellany

How Orhan does it

February 16, 2014February 16, 2014by Jenny May Ackland2 Comments on How Orhan does it

Manuscript page from Orhan Pamuk’s notebook for “The Black Book." “There is no constant formula. But I make it my business not to write two novels in the same mode. I try to change everything. This is why so many of my readers tell me, I liked this novel of yours, it’s a shame you [...]

Friday wrap

Friday wrap, with lettuce

February 7, 2014April 11, 2014by Jenny May Ackland2 Comments on Friday wrap, with lettuce

It's hot in Melbourne again, and the heat combined with it being Friday and the end of the first full week of term for the school year will see us collapsing at home tonight for a meal with family and some tv. And probably cold beer. I leave you with some links of recent Good [...]

 

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