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    Month: February 2019

    Wales Readathon | 2019

    Hi, folks! As it turns out, March will be all about Ireland and Wales for me. Along with Cathy’s Reading Ireland Month, I’ll be taking part in…… Read more “Wales Readathon | 2019”

    28 de February de 201928 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Things that make one’s heart beat faster

    Shōnagon-san, Lists, anecdotes, poetry, and small essays surrounding fleeting moments: reading The Pillow Book (枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002) is an experiment on estrangement – like…… Read more “Things that make one’s heart beat faster”

    26 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Sei Shōnagon (清少納言)

    Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, c. 966–1017/1025) was a Japanese author and a court lady during the middle Heian period. She was born in a family of middle-ranking courtiers,…… Read more “Sei Shōnagon (清少納言)”

    26 de February de 201910 de April de 2019 by juliana

    Know Thy Shelf | 01

    Hi, folks! This is the first of a series of posts documenting my bookshelves. I thought it would be interesting to create a meme/tag for it, so…… Read more “Know Thy Shelf | 01”

    22 de February de 201922 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Otherwise let this mad world crush us now

    Dear Elizabeth, The Morgesons (1862) is that rare thing: a 19th-century novel with a sceptical, areligious, and probably amoral heroine. It reads like a modernist fiction avant…… Read more “Otherwise let this mad world crush us now”

    21 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Eve actually ate an apple

    “It is best for us to continue in the belief that Eve actually ate an apple, and immediately ruined Adam in consequence! I like this belief, too,…… Read more “Eve actually ate an apple”

    20 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

    Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (née Barstow, May 6, 1823 – August 1, 1902) was an American writer. She studied at Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Massachusetts. In 1852, she got married to the critic…… Read more “Elizabeth Drew Stoddard”

    18 de February de 201921 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Reading Ireland Month | 2019

    Hello, lovely readers, As in the previous years, for our delight, Cathy and Niall are hosting Reading Ireland Month, in March, to celebrate  all things Irish! Here are some of my possible…… Read more “Reading Ireland Month | 2019”

    17 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Sucked into the soft, light-filled sky

    Tsushima-san, In Territory of Light, tr. Geraldine Harcourt (2018. Original: 光の領分, Hikari no ryōbun, 1979), you throw your protagonist in a room flooded from all corners with a harsh, shifting…… Read more “Sucked into the soft, light-filled sky”

    15 de February de 201917 de June de 2019 by juliana

    Yūko Tsushima

    Yūko Tsushima (pen name of Satoko Tsushima, 30 March 1947 – 18 February 2016) was a Japanese writer. Her father, the writer Osamu Dazai, committed suicide together with his lover,…… Read more “Yūko Tsushima”

    15 de February de 201915 de February de 2019 by juliana

    This lonely spot was not without its pilgrims

    Dear Sarah, Much like its characters, who seem to inhabit the limbo between past and present, life and death, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) lies…… Read more “This lonely spot was not without its pilgrims”

    9 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Sarah Orne Jewett

    Sarah Orne Jewett (born Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett, September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American writer. She studied at Berwick Academy, Maine, and started her writing…… Read more “Sarah Orne Jewett”

    9 de February de 20199 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Take her away and I’m half of whatever we are

    Dear Dorothy, Cassandra at the Wedding (1962) is a nuanced, finely observed character study and comedy of manners, full of a dark, twisted sense of humour, which can…… Read more “Take her away and I’m half of whatever we are”

    5 de February de 20195 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Dorothy Baker 

    Dorothy Baker (born Dorothy Alice Dodds; April 21, 1907– June 17, 1968) was an American writer. Baker attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduation in 1929,…… Read more “Dorothy Baker “

    5 de February de 20195 de February de 2019 by juliana

    Library Loot: January 30 to February 5

    Hi, folks! Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading, encouraging bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the…… Read more “Library Loot: January 30 to February 5”

    5 de February de 2019 by juliana

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