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Recipe Road Test: ‘Egg flower’ drop soup

20 August, 2008 By

Vegetarian soup from Chinese Food Made Easy by BBC TV chef Ching-He Huang. Some dear friends of mine recently gave me a copy of Chinese Food Made Easy, which ties in with the BBC show presented by Ching-He Huang. It’s full of beautiful pictures and recipes that sound delicious – from mussels in black bean [...]

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Carnival of Cities: From Carcassonne to Miami

30 April, 2008 By

I’m delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities for a second time on Roaming Tales. This is the 30 April edition and we have a bumper crop of great posts. We seem to be confined to North (and Central) America and Europe this week, though we still have a lot of diversity, from Carcassonne [...]

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The best of the web: Sydney, books, tipping, Frida, Staten Island wine, monorails, Cuba, Blarney Stone, and more

26 February, 2008 By

* The New York Times focuses this week on summer in Sydney. It’s interesting to see what they make of my hometown – they also have separate features on the ocean lap pools and the beachside cuisine. The rock pools are a fabulous subject – one of the best features of many of Sydney’s ocean [...]

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

1 December, 2007 By

Things Fall Apart is about the loss of identity and sense of self of the tribal people of what is modern day Nigeria during the colonisation by England in the 19th century. It is told through the experience of one man and his own loss of identity and sense of self as he grapples with [...]

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Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult

29 July, 2007 By

I released this at Offshore Cafe in Glasgow, where I am currently visiting family. It was picked up by another BookCrosser who left this journal entry: Journal entry 14 by MikeWoods from Glasgow, Glasgow City United Kingdom on Sunday, July 29, 2007 I’ve just found this book whilst leaving another bookcrossing book in Offshore cafe. [...]

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BookCrossing in Singapore

11 July, 2007 By

At the Brighton Unconvention, we were given a preview of some of the exciting plans for the site. I couldn’t blog about all of them at the time because they were still secret, but now I can reveal that Singapore is becoming an official BookCrossing country. It seems odd since I think the idea of [...]

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Tutu-Mauve a la Radio by Lise Le Coeur

7 July, 2007 By

I released this on the mass releasing walk at the 2007 BookCrossing Unconvention in Brighton on Sunday 1 July 2007. I left it under the stone archways at the entrance to the Brighton Royal Pavilion. It was picked up by a member of the public, who joined and left this journal entry a few days [...]

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BookCrossing in Brighton

2 July, 2007 By

www.flickr.com Niltiac1′s BookCrossing Unconvention, Brighton 2007 photoset A weekend at the seaside filled with books and socialising – what more could a girl want? (Okay, so I can think of a few things, but it was lots of fun all the same). I spent the weekend in Brighton at the 2007 BookCrossing Unconvention (so called [...]

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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

1 May, 2007 By

Wide Sargasso Sea is set mostly in the West Indies and the writing feels as lush and vivid as its setting. A young girl marries a man she barely knows. He is attentive at first but then gossip poisons his mind against her, with devastating results. The time is the mid-nineteenth century and it was [...]

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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

15 March, 2007 By

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