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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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Dark Christmas Stories for the Dark Season
This is the second year in establishing a new Christmas tradition – reading ghost stories in the long nights of December.
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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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“Rebecca”, romanul unei absențe
Rebecca și doamna de Winter sunt personajele centrale, dar și marele absente în romanul din 1938 a lui Daphne du Maurier.
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Something Tangible, Alive, Threatening
‘The Villa and The Vortex’, Elinor Mordaunt, Handheld Press, 2021
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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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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…
fiction
Book reviews and recommendations, written from a personal point of view and grounded in what’s happening in my life at the moment. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote about fiction.
