Dartyand Pike "The story of how Hemingway moved from mistress to marriage – told by each of his four wives – is as enticing as it is mysterious" – Read the Guardian's review Published in the UK on 13 February "A wonderful blend of memoir, lit crit and biography – reminds you of the powerful place books can take in our lives".
It's especially mysterious because reading is a relatively recent invention, dating to some 5,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Four immense decorative columns faced us, with ornate bas-relief plasterwork and a mysterious inscription reading "Has tibi, blanda soror Phoebi, sacravimus aedes.
A mysterious billboard reading "parbunkells" has Forrest Jills locals wondering.
It's as if there is some mysterious fantasy-reading switch that in many people is set to 'off'off
That wrinkled paper may be like the mysterious letter read by the woman in another of Vermeer's famous portraits, something that has originated outside the painting's frame.
We've seen the evolution of the ugly, blurry, monochromatic navy anchor and the dark snakes-and-dagger-through-the-heart tattoos becoming those now-ubiquitous mysterious Chinese letters reading "tranquility" or "boiling sea" or who knows what.
The Shrunken Head, The Curiosity House by Lauren Oliver & H.C. Chester, is a mysterious and thrilling read.
THE HOT COUNTRY (Mysterious, $25) reads as if it were written as a lark — and maybe it was.
Women, just like cats, are often branded as sneaky, slinky, mysterious, hard to read and impossible-to-please. Women are often shunted into either the Madonna or whore category, just as cats have been either revered as deities (ancient Egypt) or vilified as demons (Salem witch trials, 1692).
