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Mircea Cărtărescu, Melancolia – vis, basm, fantastic
Mircea Cărtărescu, “Melancolia”, Humanitas 2019
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Lolly Willowes – Autumn, Witchcraft, Satan
‘Lolly Willowes’, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Penguin Classics, 2020. First published by Chatto & Windus 1926.
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5 Ways to Choose Your Next Book
How to choose your next book in a coherent way, which gives you your own story to tell.
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4 Killer First Sentences in 20th Century Literature
Katherine Mansfield, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson and Mavis Gallant write some of the most enticing and exciting (read killer) first sentences in 20th century…
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Dark Christmas Stories for the Dark Season
This is the second year in establishing a new tradition – reading dark stories for Christmas in the long nights of December.
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2024 – Das Jahr der Bücher, die sich angesammelt haben
Für das Jahr 2024 habe ich vor, mich durch die ungelesenen Bücher der vergangenen Jahre zu arbeiten.
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Unconventional, Free, Creative Reading
‘How to Start Writing (and when to stop)’, Wislawa Szymborska, New Directions, 2021, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
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Die Wintermädchen – kein übliches Winter Buch
Cristina Sanchez-Andrade, “Die Wintermädchen”, aus dem Spanischen von Anja Rüdiger, Atlantik 2017
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2024 – The Year of the Books Which Have Piled Up
In 2024, my reading resolution is to go through all the books which have piled up over the last years.
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.