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Tropes and Ghosts of Christmas Stories
The tradition of reading Christmas stories of ghosts continues this year with ‘Chill Tidings’, a collection of 14 stories from the archives of the British…
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Pride & Prejudice – How to Be Bold
Jane Austen’s must-read classic ‘Pride & Prejudice’ is more than the most romantic love story of all times. It is a guidebook for how to…
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Castelul lui Kafka spulberă romanul secolului XIX
„Castelul” de Franz Kafka e o căutare și o regăsire în același timp, un roman care prin structura lui se contrazice pe sine.
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Audiobooks, revoluția literaturii în viitor?
Multă lume ascultă audiobooks în ziua de azi. E doar un trend sau trăim deja în viitor?
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The Beautiful Difficulty of ‘The Heat of the Day’
Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Heat of the Day’ is a beautifully atmospheric novel, with dense prose and fragmented storytelling which require and reward patience.
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East of the West & English Bulgarian
‘East of the West’ is Miroslav Penkov’s 2011 debut collection of short stories, lived in Bulgaria and written in English.
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De la Pagină la Empatie: cum cărțile ne fac oameni
Lectura tinde spre firul subțire care ne leagă pe noi, oamenii, de alți oameni. Lectura e empatie.
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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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Books and Reading in Virginia Woolf’s Essays
How should one read a book? What is there to discover on an evening walk in the streets of London? Virginia Woolf comes up with…
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6 Hints on How to Read Challenging Books
Struggled with ‘Mrs Dalloway’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the like? I’ve been there. Let me show you how to read such books.
better reading
Reading is hard work and sometimes you maybe just wish there was a how-to available. Well, this is it. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote to help you get the most out of your reading.
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