Third anniversary

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017)

Beers & Books XXIX

Voltaire – Frederick II
Correspondence

Voltaire (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778)

Friedrich II ("the Great") 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786)

Balcony View

Autumn leaves

 

Writers: José Saramago

Each book a juwel.
Look and see.
All the Names
Blindness
Hellebarden (fragment)
Seeing
The Cave

 José Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010

Balcony View

Twilight.

 

Beers & Books XXVIII

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020)

Mo(o)nday

Eggshellish.

Saturday Night Music – Mari Boine

Mari Boine *8 November, 1956

Friday is Skyday

Another balcony view.

Writers: John McGahern

Beckett, Joyce,
Flann O'Brien, Edna O'Brien
O'Casey, O'Cadhain,
O'Connor, O'Faolain, O'Flaherty,
etc., etc.,
there're so many great Irish writers.
And there's John McGahern.

 

John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006)

Writers: Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012)

Writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky

9,432 pages worth reading

Fyodor Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881)

Balcony view

On a late autumn morning ...

... the head not having in the clouds.
[for a change]