tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post182885879430576073..comments2023-12-22T10:17:24.280-05:00Comments on Bookpuddle: Not Dead -- Just Reading A LotCiprianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00254338542624853230noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-56171341621345507002015-04-08T05:02:04.543-04:002015-04-08T05:02:04.543-04:00I recently finished “Scenes from the Life of Mathi...I recently finished “Scenes from the Life of Mathias Almosino” by Isidoros Zourgos, one of my favourite and most popular modern greek writers (has sold more than 190.000 books.) Isidoros, who is a teacher, keeps writing different books and his rich language is most times poetic. His hero, Almosino, is a German-Jew doctor born in Basel who embarks a journey throughout Europe of the 17th century ( from London to Amsterdam, Petersburg to Venice, Thessaloniki to Istanbul) encounters 122 people (indeed!), re-discovers himself and finally becomes a Christian monk. Isidoros read 63 books in order to write this one, which deals with different themes from astrology to philosophy, and medicine to theology.<br />For my Easter holidays I want to read David Mitchell’s “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” and Michel Faber’s “The Crimson Petal and the White”. I said I want; it doesn’t mean I will!! Michel Faber who was born 13th of April 1960, shares his birthday with 3 giants:<br />SAMUEL BECKETT<br />SEAMUS HEANEY and<br />CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS.<br />Guess who is going to get a birthday card? This is what old Beckett would have said to the author of “the Book of the Strange New Things”:<br /> “You're on Earth, Michel Faber. There's no cure for that.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-68479338501258399902015-04-07T10:01:37.622-04:002015-04-07T10:01:37.622-04:00You are doing lots of reading! Glad to hear it has...You are doing lots of reading! Glad to hear it has been so good too. Also I am glad to know you aren't dead or at death's door.Stefaniehttp://somanybooksblog.comnoreply@blogger.com