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Month: May 2018

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White Trash by Nancy Isenberg – a book review

17 September, 201930 May, 2018

A review of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg which I read with great interest earlier in the month.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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A rhododendron frames Vallgraven – photo of the week

24 August, 201825 May, 2018

A flowering rhododendron in macro framing a blurred, more distant view of Vallgraven, the Gothenburg city moat. I originally posted This week’s photo on 25th May 2014 at GBG365.

Categories Images, Photo of the week
Brief return to Brussels

A brief return to Belgium – a photo gallery

25 August, 201923 May, 2018

A bief return to Brussels for a boring bureaucratic task yields photo-memories of places we planned to visit but never managed during our three years in Belgium.

Categories Gallery, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Ducklings on Slätta damm – photo of the week

3 October, 201818 May, 2018

Ducklings on Slätta Damm – my photo of the week this week shows a photo of three ducklings from 2013 and a further duckling and its mother snapped yesterday in the same place.

Categories Images, Photo of the week
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At the sign of the Alchemist – a reading diary

17 September, 201916 May, 2018

At the sign of the Alchemist – a new Reading Diary entry: reading strategies, Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Yarden by Kristian Lundberg, White Trash Nancy Isenberg. And two double macchiatos.

Categories At the Quill, Reading diary, Reviews
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SWF18: the 2018 Stockholm Writers’ Festival

2 October, 20189 May, 2018

SWF18 – a writing diary entry about my participation in the 2018 Stockholm Writers’ Festival back in April, together with a preamble about “all the trouble I’ve seen”.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary

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