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Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A marvelous story told in (almost) classic British comic style by Hugh Laurie, who played Bertie Wooster in the “Jeeves and Wooster” TV series. A review I read before reading the book spoke of this as a mix of P. G. Wodehouse and Fredrick Forsyth and I didn’t believe it. I won’t say I buy [...]

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Down Under Part I: Sydney

Saturday, July 10, 2010

The first of what I hope will be a series of posts on my recent trip to Australia. Any visitor probably first experiences Sydney at its harbour, which gives a million vantage points to view the city from. There’s one secret to the charm — multiple perspectives of the heart of the city; each spectacular. [...]

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