“He was turning like a teetotum, looking in all directions, and sometimes peering into the darkness of the hall with his little bloodshot eyes. Then he'd mutter something to himself and start gazing up and down the street again.”
#wordoftheday
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Here is the couscous I made. The couscous sauce contains lamb, various vegetables, ginger, garlic, and ras el hanout spices. The couscous semolina is rehydrated, fluffed up, mixed with either butter or olive oil, then steamed, all of it twice. It is served with merguez sausages, chickpeas, which I flavoured with carraway seeds, and harissa, a delicious red pepper and garlic relish (bought ready-made).
#Algeria #FoodandLit
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This book gives us the reflections of Boualem, a non-religious bookseller in a place run by Islamic fundamentalists, pretty transparently #Algeria. He is isolated & harassed. It was written during the Algerian civil war and the FIS rule. Djaout was murdered by the GIA & the book was published posthumously. I'm not sure it should have been: it's badly written & edited. ⬇
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pickNot for the faint of heart! The author was a French sympathizer with the native Algerians during the war of independence. As an outspoken journalist, he was a wanted man. When he was arrested his torture began immediately. He committed every detail to memory, knowing most people try to forget the torture. He wrote this book while still imprisoned and snuck it out of his prison page by page. Banned by France, it reached an immense amount of ⬇️
#wordoftheday
“Anyhow, after some palavering among the bench, the Prosecutor, and my counsel, the presiding judge announced that the court would now rise; there was an adjournment till the afternoon, when evidence would be taken.”
#Algeria #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
I‘m on my fifth book for #Algeria #foodandlit and only now
is food mentioned! And most certainly not in an appetizing way. I‘m suspecting food is not much to write about for Algeria.
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My next audiobook for #Algeria #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Also #letterZ for #litsyAtoZ
Book coincidences again! Both books I‘m reading today have prison visits! Not weird for the tagged book, which is short and about murder. But weird because the other prison visit showed up today in my Dickens chunkster. How did they both land on the same day?
From Dickens:
“The man contented himself by briefly replying 'Wisitors;' and taking him by the arm in exactly the same manner as the constable had done the day before, led him, through ⬇️
#wordoftheday
“And then the Arab drew his knife and held it up toward me, athwart the sunlight.”
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