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Leipzig Book Fair 2025 – A Review
March holds one of the more important yearly events for me – the Leipzig book fair.
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Sara Stridsberg and her Beckomberga
Sara Stridsberg’s ‘The Gravity of Love’ is the story of a father and daughter, as well as the story of Beckomberga, the former mental institution…
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The Lucky Bottle
Jack is just an ordinary man – with a bottle. A lucky bottle to be precise. Read Jack’s story – or is it the story…
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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…
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.
