Hello, lovely bookish folks! Another reading year has flashed by! It’s time to look back over the books we’ve read in 2016 and pick our favourites. Firstly,…… Read more “Burning the old year”
Month: December 2016
Making sugar out of light
[A weekly compilation of random things] A poem “‘The trees, good Seraphim, begin to sing at dawn about making sugar out of light’ (…)” (Rae Armantrout, ‘Traffic’.…… Read more “Making sugar out of light”
Everyone was fleeing and everything was temporary
Dear Anna, Do you know this feeling we have when something terrible happens in a dream and we must scream or run, but we find ourselves suddenly…… Read more “Everyone was fleeing and everything was temporary”
Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers (pseudonym of Netty Reiling, 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983) was a German writer. Anna was born in Mainz into a Jewish family. She…… Read more “Anna Seghers”