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2003-06-16

An Imaginative Experience

By Mary Wesley
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on June 16, 2003

A house-guest of ours advised Irina to read Mary Wesley: she suspected that Irina would love her books. Little did they expect that _I_ would love her works, too. An Imaginative Experience is a love story, and a very fine one, written with mildness and love for the dramatis personae.

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The Avenging Parrot

By Anne Austin
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on June 16, 2003

The Avenging Parrot was part of a large stack of pre-WW II mystery novels, thrillers and detective novels I bought at a sale at the local library. You can't go very far wrong for 50 eurocents, I thought, and bought the book.

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Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy

By Freeman Wills Croft
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on June 16, 2003

Life has been a little stressful lately, what with my company going belly-up and then righting itself again and some other, more private matters, that I have had singularly little inclination to get started on the more solid volumes on my to-read pile, preferring instead to read a simple, silly detective story. So that's why you're reading about Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy (or IFATST) instead of Lud in the Mist.

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