Presque vu IX

Book Blogging credibility is put under scrutiny in this article from Metaxu Cafe:
Personally, I think it’s time that book bloggers came clean. It might sound ridiculous, but I honestly think we need a code of conduct. We need to tell our readers when we are reviewing free books or when we are taking part in [...]



White - a novel

Marie Darrieussecq’s White opens as Pete Tomson, a heating engineer, in a plane and Edmée Blanco, a telecommunications engineer, in an old converted tug, arrive at the South Pole to help construct a permanent European base at the heart of Antarctica. The time is the near future.
Edmée’s journey, especially, reads like the description of a [...]



1. Why do you blog?
To connect to the world, to argue, to laugh. I’m too lazy to put much effort into publishing, so I put my poetry online and whoever comes comes.
I’ve met some spectacular people, deepened some old friendships, and found that I care pretty passionately about some issues I didn’t realize were [...]






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