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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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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…
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2030.ro proză contemporană audio
În vara lui 2021 eram în plină criză de covid. Credeam că gata, asta a fost, viața socială s-a terminat, ne mutăm cu totul în…
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Anna Karenina – Life, Lively, Lived
“Life dominates Tolstoy. There is always at the centre of all the brilliant and flashing petals this scorpion ‘Why live?’” (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Russian Point…
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.
