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Maldive, scuba, Dune
Când l-am anunțat pe soțul meu că o sa iau cu mine să citesc al treilea “Dune” în vacanța de scuba diving în Maldive, a…
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Jane Eyre – How to Be in Control
Charlotte Brontë’s must-read classic ‘Jane Eyre’ is more than a gothic novel, or a romantic love story. It is a lesson of how to be…
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Something Tangible, Alive, Threatening
‘The Villa and The Vortex’, Elinor Mordaunt, Handheld Press, 2021
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Mavis Gallant – How to Write with Depth
I have lived in writing, like a spoonful of water in a river. This is how the Canadian author Mavis Gallant describes her writing life,…
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How ‘Jane Eyre’ Was Published – The Story in Charlotte Brontë’s Letters
That Charlotte Brontë published ‘Jane Eyre’ in 1847 under the name Currer Bell is well-known but what more is there to the story? Let’s see…
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Das Leben vor uns – Historischer Roman mit Charakter
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, “Das Leben vor uns”, aus dem Englischen von Claudia Wenner, C.H. Beck 2022
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Life Ceremony – Not for the Faint of Heart
Sayaka Murata, ‘Life Ceremony’, Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Granta, July 2022.
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S-Town – Narrative Nonfiction Podcast with a Looot of Twists
Whatever anyone (including this review) tells you what the podcast S-Town is about, it’s not. Unless they give you spoilers, which, for this podcast especially,…
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The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf’s First Novel
It’s hard to read Virginia Woolf’s first novel objectively, knowing her later work. I keep looking for the Woolf I know. But she was not…
diana
I’m Diana, a lifelong book and literature enthusiast.
I’m a big fan of 20th century literature and women writers, but I don’t shy away from classics, contemporary fiction, nor from an intelligent thriller.