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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
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Station Zero
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220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
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749/997 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
Progress:
8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
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152/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
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78/534 pages
Poems Selected
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4/50 pages
Selected Poems
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18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
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133/789 pages
Vedute di Roma, H Schulze Alteappenberg & Ulf Solter
Well, the pictures are good!
Piranesi made such an impression on me when I saw his Imaginary Prisons/Prisons of the Imagination in Berlin that I just had to get more in book form. Unfortunately, the only book available was this catalogue of Roman scenes, in German. Hence it didn't take me long to "read"!
There's a contrast between the completely fantastical scenes in the museum and these realistic views of Rome, but they are both amazing. I have to read something where the art isn't architectural, now though, after Canaletto and this!