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Port Vell, Barcelona In no way should this be taken as a continuation on last week's Friday Five , but that did make me think of the tim...

The Muse  by Jessie Burton Ecco Pp. 390 The parallel stories in this novel lead the reader to wonder just exactly who is whose muse? It begi...

The Australian National Maritime Museum has a fantastic exhibition of shipwrecks, recreated in Lego with information about the ships, the di...

Malaphor - (rare) an idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing an often nonsensical result. The po...

Kehua! by Fay Weldon - "Novels can no longer sit on shelves and pretend to be reality; they are not, they are inventions, suspensions ...

When I returned to Australia after five weeks in Europe, I thought I would have a slow Sunday of reading the paper in the pub and catching u...