If only we could read all our favourite books in the language they were written in. As for Out of Africa, I read it only in Romanian some years ago and I can not believe it’s taken me so long to get an original version. I loved David Lean’s movie and I imagine I will enjoy the novel much more.

A Passage to India has been on my wish list for a long time and I am anxious to start that one too. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker 78,379 ratings, 4. I’m now diving into Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - YouTube 0:00 / 4:37 The Art of Hearing Heartbeats CT STYLE 50.1K subscribers Subscribe 17 Share 4.9K views 10 years ago Author Jan-Phillip Serdker talks about. This has become one of my all-time favourite books. Sagan seamlessly takes you to a different time and place with her wonderfully composed, flowing writing and her words have a merciless candour, not like anything I’ve read before. I finished it in one sitting, because I couldn’t put it down. These charming portraits, produced by Joe Richman, will be playing weekly on public radio, through the end of February, weekends on The Next Big Thing on WNYC in New York (820 AM and 93.9 FM). I’ve already read Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse. I needed more reading material for the summer. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might beuntil they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. This week my newly ordered books have arrived.

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