Recently reading and posting on [new underground] Tom Robotham’s “10 Books That Changed My Life” got me thinking about how literature has moved and altered me over the years. But I saw that in most cases it has been authors—and my intimate, fluid relationship with them over countless hours—rather than single books that affected and [...]
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A Beguiling Trip with Guy de Maupassant
by Rick Skwiot October 11, 2010 BooksI have just reread with great pleasure Guy de Maupassant’s compact logbook Afloat, which purports to chronicle nine days aboard his yacht Bel-Ami in spring 1887, as he and his two-man crew set sail from Antibes. However, the title is a bit misleading as, thanks to the weather, Maupassant spends more time ashore than afloat. However, the 100-page [...]