Night Letters
Registered by livrecache of Hobart, Tasmania Australia on 8/31/2007
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
(From the blurb)
Every night, for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters he reflects on questions of mortality, seduction and the search for paradise in deeply life-enhancing ways.
Reserved for 2nd round of VBB Oz.
Sending to Blue1236
3 October
Sorry about the delay -- I had trouble finding this book! Posting today.
Every night, for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters he reflects on questions of mortality, seduction and the search for paradise in deeply life-enhancing ways.
Reserved for 2nd round of VBB Oz.
Sending to Blue1236
3 October
Sorry about the delay -- I had trouble finding this book! Posting today.
Journal Entry 2 by livrecache at By mail in A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/3/2007 UTC) at By mail in A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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After a slight crisis when I couldn't find this book, it's finally on its way!
After a slight crisis when I couldn't find this book, it's finally on its way!
Received in the mail today - thank you livrecache!!
Ready to be mailed out as part of my massive book clearance. Just waiting on a satchel from lakelady2282.
Journal Entry 5 by blue1236 at A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, August 6, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (8/6/2009 UTC) at A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Sent today.
Sent today.
Journal Entry 6 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Monday, August 10, 2009
This looks interesting.
Journal Entry 7 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, October 18, 2009
At first glance I thought this novel was just a collection of travel writings but it is so much more. It is a meditation on life and death and travel as metaphor for escaping. Two stories told to the letterwriter are actually about escape and of course that's what our narrator wants to do when he hears his diagnosis.
To my mind though I like the cross current of location and story. I just found the third story rather weak compared to the other two and didn't get a sense of Padua as opposed to Locarno, Vicenza and Venice. But that is just a little quibble. Otherwise a very enjoyable read.
To my mind though I like the cross current of location and story. I just found the third story rather weak compared to the other two and didn't get a sense of Padua as opposed to Locarno, Vicenza and Venice. But that is just a little quibble. Otherwise a very enjoyable read.
Journal Entry 8 by lakelady2282 at Juicy Beans Cafe, Marine Precinct in Wickham, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (11/11/2009 UTC) at Juicy Beans Cafe, Marine Precinct in Wickham, New South Wales Australia
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Actually release time between 8.00 a.m. and 9.00 a.m. Friday 13th
Actually release time between 8.00 a.m. and 9.00 a.m. Friday 13th
Journal Entry 9 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Catching back from the meeting. The cafe proved to be a coffee cart with bad service in an empty room that the "boys" had chosen. Will release at Sunday's meeting after all.
Journal Entry 10 by lakelady2282 at Cafe de Beaumont in Hamilton, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (11/12/2009 UTC) at Cafe de Beaumont in Hamilton, New South Wales Australia
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at Sunday's meeting at Cafe at 9.30 a.m.
at Sunday's meeting at Cafe at 9.30 a.m.
I read this book when it was first published ,. A second reding confirmed my very favourable judgment. Superbly written musings on lif and death, travel.
