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Author Archives: Charles Lambert
Little Monsters – review
The April issue of Good Housekeeping (UK), curiously due to appear in early March, has included Little Monsters among its Seven Great Reads. The other six include the latest by La Petite Anglaise, Anne Fine and Hanif Kureishi. It calls … Continue reading
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Life saver
This lifebelt was spotted in a shop window in Sausalito. It’s hard to imagine a ship called Nellie, though less hard to imagine those who sail on her referring to one another with the term, which I’d previously assumed was … Continue reading
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Ethnic rugs
Coming into Rome from the south, trains often used to have to wait a little outside the station for an available platform. The view from the windows on the right side of the train (looking towards Termini) was enlivened by … Continue reading
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The minute and the immense
There’s an expression for someone who has to travel a long way to discover something he could have found more easily on his doorstep. Whatever that expression is, it could certainly be applied to me as far as the work … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, arizona, paolo soleri, USA
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Little Monsters – a second review
Another review of Little Monsters, this time by literary blogger dovegreyreader. She asks some interesting questions about the construction of novels with more than one time thread in the narrative. If I hadn’t been awake for just under 30 hours … Continue reading
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Smalltown baroque
This wonderfully bold decoration comes from the Mission San Xavier del Bac, just outside Tucson, rising from a patch of desert as though it had once expected a community to form around it, as I imagine it did, although what … Continue reading
Posted in arizona, art, church, food
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Charactus
I know we’re not supposed to be anthropomorphic (yawn), but I can’t think of any other plant that has so much sheer personality as the saguaro cactus, which populates the hills and desert round here. They do pretty much the … Continue reading
Posted in arizona, holiday
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Five recommended portions a day
Would that be five feet? And what if they’re not quite, er, there? Or just too good to be true?
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CHARLES LAMBERT 