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Love, Loss and Winter in the Air
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1938 collection Winter in the Air is the perfect book to pick up at the turn of season.
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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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The Count of Monte Christo, a Hero’s Story?
“The Count of Monte Christo”, a review not about the book itself about, but about my opinion regarding the hero.
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Other Worlds, Same Hauntings
Nadezhda Teffi’s anthology of short stories ‘Other Worlds’ has opened my eyes to a hidden gem of Russian literature.
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Great Italian Short Stories
If there’s something which sets Italian short stories apart from other literatures of the world it’s this: they burn with a barely contained fire.
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Reading List 2024
Everyone does a review of the year – why not use your reading list as one? This is 2024 from the point of view of…
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Escaping the Ship
Getting imprisoned on a ship is never a fun vacation activity. But how to escape with only a fat, lazy cat at hand?
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Christmas Ghost Stories at the Hearth
This is the third year of what is already becoming a well-established tradition in my reading year – reading ghost stories for Christmas.
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A Trilogy or Not a Trilogy – This Is the Question
Some people prefer a trilogy, others prefer single books – here are my thoughts on the pros and cons of both sides.
leseriana in English
Book reviews and recommendations, literary analyses, forgotten literary treasures, hints and suggestions how to live a meaningful reader’s life. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote in English.
