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JacquiWine
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Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 2d
New on the blog today, I've written about A PRIVATE VIEW by Anita Brookner.

A superb novel in which a dull, respectable middle-aged man is tempted to jettison his highly ordered life for a volatile, vampish young woman. I loved it! #BookSky 💙📚

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A Private View by Anita Brookner
I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…
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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 8h
Ann Sothern with a super-cute white floof dog. I don't have any more information than that, but how much more do we need, really.
Sothern has on a chic little black hat and a fur jacket. She is holding the small(ish) dog. The dog has floppy floof ears, a big black nose, and fur almost covering its eyes.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 12h
This work by Félix Vallotton was on the cover of the satirical weekly newspaper Le Cri de Paris on January 23, 1898 - it was a reaction of immediate support for Émile Zola's famous J'accuse! letter after Captain Alfred Dreyfus had been found guilty of treason.
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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 17h
I felt a lump in my throat when it was announced that László Krasznahorkai had won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. I love his books and have reviewed four of his novels for The Irish Times.
Many thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for allowing me to do so.
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Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai: A paean to depth and meaning amid violence and death
The novel’s protagonist, Florian Herscht, writes and rewrites a letter to Angela Merkel about what he believes to be an existential threat to the world
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 16h
Moving on, in her reading of Anita Brookner, @jacquiwine.bsky.social:

"Once again, Brookner proves herself to be ruthlessly precise and perceptive in her portrayal of human nature, complete with all the flaws and failings this condition encompasses."

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A Private View by Anita Brookner
I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 15h
I like the full-bleed look of these new Penguin Classics by Duff Cooper and E.W. Hornung (both coming early 2026). They seem to draw on earlier examples by Edith Wharton and G.K. Chesterton. More pleasing and stylish than the standard black Penguin Classics livery.
Duff Cooper's Operation Heartbreak Raffles, Gentleman Thief by EW Hornung Summer by Edith Wharton The Napoleon of Notting Hill by GK Chesterton
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 13h
Splendid!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
That’s the edition I read. It’s a thing of beauty in every sense!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
I think Persephone reissued it too at one point.
Duff Cooper also translated Louise de Vilmorin’s excellent novella MADAME DE…, which was made into an equally excellent film by Max Ophuls!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 16h
IIRC, the live-action Doctor Dolittle was something of a watershed on this front. 1,500 animals had to be trained and transported to the shoot, so you can imagine how smoothly that went…
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 16h
There are a few horror stories along these lines in Tim Robey’s book Box Office Poison…
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 17h
Oh god, that’s terrible…
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 17h
That’s another film I know I should see…
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 22h
Albert Marquet's 'Lausanne and the Lake,' (1936) painted from the Hôtel Belvédère offers a view of the Lake Geneva landscape - a view approached with the same sense of pared-down minimalism and simplified forms as the rest of his work.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22h
Painting created by Mavis Oultram c.1968, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey where she was compelled to live.
This is one of six surviving works by her, all of which feature motifs of spirals & eyes.
No biographical information is currently known to us
A watercolour painting of multiple human eyes of various colours surrounded in scrolling spirals in dark grey on a greenish blue background suggesting water
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 17h
Oh, yes. She’s very sharp. Those are of my favourite books about ageing, alongside Pym’s QUARTET IN AUTUMN!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 17h
Oh, perfect. You’re all set!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 17h
I still need to watch the film, but it’s on the list. (You’d appreciate the novel, I think!)
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18h
13 years ago, this review by @maxcairnduff.bsky.social prompted me to read Krasznahorkai’s SATANTANGO (tr. George Szirtes). An extraordinary novel that seems to capture a community balanced on a knife edge between hope/salvation & despair/damnation. 💙📚

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a better, fairer future
Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai and translated by George Szirtes Normally I hate writing reviews weeks after finishing a book. It tends to make the task much harder, as details start to blur an…
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 18h
I am yet to read László Krasznahorkai, but I've just bought Sátántangó, and am curious to see if I can read its 304 pages in less than the film adaptation's running time of 7 hours and 19 minutes.
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18h
Haha!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18h
Ha! She had a decent sized trolley on the go - not just a quick dash for a pint of milk. :-)
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18h
Haha! :-)
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 19h
Just seen a woman in Tesco, doing her shopping while wearing a dressing gown, pyjamas and slippers. #OBAA #FilmSky
A film still from One Battle After Another showing Pat/Bob (Leo) using a payphone - he’s wearing a red & black plaid bathrobe over a grey T-shirt, a black beanie hat and black shades.
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 20h
I know. So cutting!
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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 22h
Ouch
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 22h
"He almost loved her, and would have married her had she been slightly but essentially different. He thought that she probably felt the same about him. Each was too loyal to admit that something else was desired, something less sedate." #BookSky 💙📚

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A Private View by Anita Brookner
I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…
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