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The Grit and Heart of ‘Shuggie Bain’
‘Shuggie Bain’, Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize winner is a dark and heavy story which will leave you emotionally drained. But the story has a…
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Animal Farm (or, How Stories Make the World)
George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” shows that you need only one thing to start a dictatorship: aggressive storytelling.
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5 Male Characters Who Stick
If literary characters were real people, I would love to sit down for a chat with these 5 male characters.
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‘The Waves’ – A Flower with Six Petals
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves is a tapestry of feelings and perceptions, knit together by 6 friends, a 7th absent one and a narrator who seems…
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Woolf and Shakespeare in Cambridge
Second year in a row in Cambridge reading Virginia Woolf and seeing an open-air performance at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival
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How to Read Virginia Woolf’s Diaries
“Either I am a great writer or a nincompoop” (Virginia Woolf’s diaries, 29th October 1922)
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Virginia Woolf, the Common Reader?
Virginia Woolf comments on her reading in the second volume of ‘The Common Reader’, published in 1932.
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Iris Wolff und andere Höhepunkte des Jahres 2024
Iris Wolff und Elena Ferrante sind bisher meine Lieblingsautorinnen des Jahres 2024.
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Schatten der Vergangenheit in “Die Glut”
Sándor Márai, “Die Glut”, aus dem Ungarischen von Christina Viragh, Piper 2004
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Children and Parents in ‘To the Lighthouse’
This fourth time reading Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ revealed to me the depths in the relations between children and parents.
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Here, on leseriana.blog, I share my passion for reading in three different languages.
Romanian, my mother tongue
English, the language I don’t even consider foreign
German, the language of my adoptive country and still very foreign for me
Over three languages, I am here to to connect with fellow readers like you.
