Tag Archives: Catalan

Book Review: What’s Up With Catalonia?

Posted on March 26, 2023 by nathanalbright

What’s Up With Catalonia, edited by Liz Castro In many ways, reading this book in 2023 is a bit of a disappointment. This book was written and published in a hurry, when Catalonia thought it had a moment where the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The First Prehistoric Serial Killer And Other Stories

Posted on February 16, 2019 by nathanalbright

The First Prehistoric Serial Killer And Other Stories, by Teresa Solana One of the thrills of reading good mystery novels (and, as in this case, good short story compilations) is the way that they demonstrate the author’s awareness of a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Catalan

Posted on December 19, 2018 by nathanalbright

Teach Yourself Catalan:  A Complete Course For Beginners, by Alan Yates This is the sort of book that would be best in association with a formal course on Catalan, but since those are few and far between then books like … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Teach Yourself Complete Catalan

Posted on December 19, 2018 by nathanalbright

Teach Yourself Complete Catalan, by Anna Poch Gasau and Alan Yates As someone who greatly enjoys reading about and improving my own knowledge of other languages [1], this book was a very interesting one to me.  For one, I found … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Catalan Food

Posted on December 1, 2018 by nathanalbright

Catalan Food:  Culture & Flavors From The Mediterranean, by Daniel Olivella with Caroline Wright There was something about this book that I found particularly troubling, and that was that while I was looking in this book for a glance at … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Catalan Painting

Posted on December 1, 2018 by nathanalbright

Catalan Painting:  From The Nineteenth To The Surprising Twentieth Century, by Joan Ainaud De Lasarte Sadly, my local library system only has this one volume of a three volume set by the author on Catalan painting, because this is a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Cultures Of The World: Andorra

Posted on November 4, 2018 by nathanalbright

Cultures Of The World:  Andorra, by Byron D. Augustin Since childhood, when I first found out about this small and odd nation in the Pyrenees Mountains, I have been interested in the nation of Andorra [1].  There are a lot … Continue reading →

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