I was pretty busy and only checking online intermittently.
See link.
BTW, based on your mention of it I bought Orlando Figues' book on the Crimean War.
Ah, let me know what you think. He had some thoughts about it that sounded like they might be one interpretation but not necessarily the only one, about the Russophobia in Europe at the time and the mentality of the Russians during that war... I'd be interested to know what you make of all that.
Didn't really like his treatment of the Osman Empire prior to the war too much, but then I'd read Caroline Finkel's Osman's Dream only a few months earlier, which obviously went into a lot more detail and depth.
La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal
11/09/2012 01:13:42 AM
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Hm. I might give that a try, then, despite being even less of a fan of Le Rouge et le Noir than you. *NM*
12/09/2012 09:56:50 PM
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Sounds like you'd be the only one. This review went over like a fart in church. *NM*
12/09/2012 11:20:23 PM
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Not true
12/09/2012 11:39:59 PM
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Well, then there's two. *NM*
13/09/2012 02:10:53 PM
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Well, not many here read French lit, it seems
13/09/2012 02:19:23 PM
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We could certainly do some interesting book clubs on French lit, if we had enough participants.
13/09/2012 06:49:34 PM
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Well, I thought it had largely died as a viable model back in 2004-2005
14/09/2012 10:09:44 PM
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Yeah, my Princess de Clèves review didn't have much success either. *NM*
13/09/2012 06:48:07 PM
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I didn't notice that one. Did you post it last week or the week before?
13/09/2012 07:42:11 PM
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Two weeks ago, yeah.
13/09/2012 08:20:45 PM
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It sounds like an interesting but somewhat dry novel.
14/09/2012 02:48:10 PM
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I dare say you'd be shouting at her to give in already before too long, yes.
14/09/2012 07:33:09 PM
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I think you now have to read/review Samuel Richardson's Pamela
14/09/2012 10:08:14 PM
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Samuel Richardson is on my list, aye - but Pamela or Clarissa? *NM*
14/09/2012 11:01:26 PM
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