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Hello, dear readers!  I'm back with another book review and recommendation. Memories of Hadrian   by Belgian French author Marguerite Yourcenar is an extraordinary novel about  Roman emperor Hadrian.   Published in 1951, it won its author critical acclaim and was an immediate success. Originally written and published in French, under the title  Mémoires d'Hadrien,  it was translated to English in 1954 by Grace Frick, who was not only  Marguirete's lifelong translator but also her lifelong partner. Belgian born Marguerite Yourcenar became an USA citizen in 1954, the same year an English version of her novel was published. Marguerite  was quite an established writer,  the w inner of the  Prix Femina  and the  Erasmus Prize , and the first woman elected to the French Academy  in 1980. In 1965, she was even nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature. Surely, this novel had something to do with her success.  It is said t...

 Hello! Today I'm taking you to recreational area Bunica aka Buna river. Buna is a settlement in vicinity of Mostar built around Buna river. I don't know if you have noticed, but Buna river is somewhat of a favoured destination on this little digital place to call my own. It has appeared on this blog about a hundred times. It's one of the first outdoor places where my husband has taken me ( back when we started dating), maybe even the first! Besides this lovely destination, we'll also do what we do best- some reviewing. What is my reading recommendation of the day? Unicorn Variation , a short story by Roger Zelazny. It was originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. I'm currently reading the Unicorn Variations book, a short story collection. You can read it online by borrowing it from an online library  or you can listen to it on online ( Youtube edition ). Either way, I do recommend it, especially to fans of Roger Zelazny. Last Summer, I recom...