oops, I had not seen issybird message!
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Originally Posted by issybird
Pamuk also alluded to Cervantes, who spent five years as a slave after the battle of Lepanto and whose prison experiences were a major source of his subsequent writings. I even thought of Albert Speer and his long walk around the world while in Spandau.
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thanks for this tip!
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Originally Posted by desertblues
I did read the Museum of Innocence and it is quite a haunting book about an obsession. The book My name is Red is also very interesting; in between a mystery one gets educated about the history of Islamic illumination in the days that it was dangerous to deviate from usual practices; worth while! The book Snow was disappointing as I visited the town it speaks about, Kars, just in the days that I was reading the book, and I kept looking for the streetviews Pamuk described although this isn't that important for the book.
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could not resist, bought
My name is red yesterday.
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Originally Posted by desertblues
Paola, on my iPad I have the iAwriter app and there I copy the lines of texts I want to use from iBooks(after having emailed the book as epub to myself and opened in iBooks, or any other program). From the iAwriter I can email the annotations to myself and edit them in my mail etc...
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I meant quoting of the messages, not from the book, but this will surely come very handy, thank you.