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7 Reasons Why Pursue an MA in English Literature
I didn’t even know what Reading was until I spent three years as a student on an MA in English literature.
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Maldives, Diving, Short Stories
On a diving trip in the Maldivian paradise-on-earth? Nothing better to read during this dream vacation than short stories which shake literary standards.
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Jane Eyre – How to Be in Control
Charlotte Brontë’s must-read classic ‘Jane Eyre’ is more than a gothic novel, or a romantic love story. It is a lesson of how to be…
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Something Tangible, Alive, Threatening
‘The Villa and The Vortex’, Elinor Mordaunt, Handheld Press, 2021
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Mavis Gallant – How to Write with Depth
I have lived in writing, like a spoonful of water in a river. This is how the Canadian author Mavis Gallant describes her writing life,…
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How ‘Jane Eyre’ Was Published – The Story in Charlotte Brontë’s Letters
That Charlotte Brontë published ‘Jane Eyre’ in 1847 under the name Currer Bell is well-known but what more is there to the story? Let’s see…
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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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S-Town – Narrative Nonfiction Podcast with a Looot of Twists
Whatever anyone (including this review) tells you what the podcast S-Town is about, it’s not. Unless they give you spoilers, which, for this podcast especially,…
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.
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