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Stationery pleasures7 comments

Steve wrote 1 week ago: I love stationery. Probably a little too much. There. I said it. I thought I ought to acknowledge th … more →

Tags: not sport, Elvis Costello, Hilary Mantel, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, Notebooks, Orhan Pamuk, stationery, writing

Michael Ondaatje

paradiseisakindoflibrary wrote 1 week ago: The English Patient She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been imme … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Writers And Their Routines

Taylor Bright wrote 1 week ago: I totally missed this from a couple of weeks ago. The Wall Street Journal tracked down 11 writers an … more →

Tags: Books, Writer's Routines

Reviews: THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje1 comment

diaryofaneccentric wrote 2 weeks ago: A couple of our participants read and reviewed The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje for the WWII … more →

Tags: wwii, Book Reviews, The English Patient, WWII Challenge

"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje1 comment

amymeng wrote 1 month ago: If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on your pillow. You … more →

Tags: Poetry

to die in a holy place

peter rudd wrote 1 month ago: This is an excerpt from Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.  One of the story lines in the … more →

Tags: The Sweet Life, Nationalism, North Africa, The English Patient

From "Near," Michael Ondaatje

raypride wrote 1 month ago: Michael Ondaatje, before a reading at the Chamber Of Commerce in Thessaloniki, Greece. … more →

Tags: Images from "Near.", "far and near" "ray pride" Dovetail photography shows

Not all eyes are on the Prizes

macleans.ca wrote 1 month ago: Gil Adamson’s The Outlander, Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Saraje … more →

Tags: Arts & Culture, Books, Alistair Macleod, Annabel Lyon, Anne Michaels, Colin McAdam, gil adamson, Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards

bright yellow walls a thousand metres high

peter rudd wrote 1 month ago: Here is a list of winds and sandstorms in the Middle East and North Africa described by Michael Onda … more →

Tags: desert, Sandstorms, The English Patient

a line i wish i'd written

translating for peas wrote 1 month ago: Seeing you I want no other life originally from: Michael Ondaatje’s poem Secular Love discover … more →

Tags: love and her fandamily, words to slip into your pocket, arcadia, Blog, Poetry

Improvizatie4 comments

moonlightblues wrote 1 month ago: …acesta ar fi cuvantul care ar rezuma cel mai bine primul roman publicat de Michael Ondaatje in 1976 … more →

Tags: Books/Music, Buddy Bolden, Coming Through Slaughter

Booker Prize Winner 20094 comments

Ayesha wrote 1 month ago: Man Booker Prize is to the literary world what Oscar is to Hollywood. This prize is awarded to the w … more →

Tags: achievement, Books, Literature, 2009, Mohsin Hamid, award, ben okri, Man Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel

The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje2 comments

misconceptionoftheoyster wrote 1 month ago: If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on your pillow. You … more →

Tags: Art, The Cinnamon Peeler

September 12 in history

homepaddock wrote 2 months ago: On September 12: 1575 English explorer Henry Hudson was born. 1846 Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Rob … more →

Tags: History, Wikipedia, All Blacks, switzerland, NZ History Online, Henry Hudson, elizabeth barrett, Robert Browning, Maurice Chevalier

Unravelling "Anil's Ghost"

csothbeg144 wrote 2 months ago: I am 100 pages into Anil’s Ghost. Michael Ondaatje has an interesting writing style. There are … more →

Tags: academic, Anil's Ghost

Michael Ondaatje

satine79 wrote 3 months ago: 普段は、写真やアート、インテリア、ファッション誌、など手軽に見れるものばかりを見ているけれど、たまに小説を読みたくなった。 先日、大阪から帰る途中に立ち寄った本屋さんで、洋書のセールコーナーを発見。 … more →

Tags: 1, Livre

Exes, winter, a writers festival and Michael Ondaatje

combatdavey wrote 3 months ago: LAST THING I REMEMBER WAS STANDING OUTSIDE, talking to Michael Ondaatje. It was Toronto, it was wint … more →

Tags: Night Dreams, Home, Alarm to wake up, bed, ex-girlfriend, JL, JP, Toronto, winter

Favourite Writers: Fiction

chasing bawa wrote 3 months ago: Everytime I am confronted with articles or questionnaires about favourite books and writers, I decid … more →

Tags: Books, Lists, Sarah Waters, Romesh Gunasekara, Fiction, donna tartt, David Mitchell, Michelle de Kretser, Albert Camus

In The Skin Of A Lion-- Michael Ondaatje

Randy wrote 3 months ago: Lured by rumors of Michael Ondaatje’s heady prose and some popular as well as critical success, I ha … more →

Tags: Canada


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