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    Author: juliana

    Poeira de água sobre água. Water dust over water.

    Her heart is this red apple

    Dear Irina, When Isolde (2019, tr. Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg. Original: Изольда, 1929) opens, it’s summer, sometime in the wild 1920’s, and we are in Biarritz.…… Read more “Her heart is this red apple”

    8 de January de 2021 by juliana

    In the transparent silence of night,

    Six poems by Irina Odoevtseva: three from the collection A Russian cultural revival: a critical anthology of émigré literature before 1939, edited and translated by Temira Pachmuss…… Read more “In the transparent silence of night,”

    6 de January de 2021 by juliana

    Irina Odoevtseva

    Irina Vladimirovna Odoevtseva (Ирина Влади′мировна Одо′евцева, pen name of Ираида Густавовна Гейнике – Iraida Gustavovna Geinike. Latvian: Iraida Heinike. 15 June 1895 – 14 October 1990) was…… Read more “Irina Odoevtseva”

    6 de January de 20218 de January de 2021 by juliana

    Her perversities were as essential a part of her work as her inspirations,

    Hi, folks, This is post 1 of Deal me In. For more about this project & my previous posts on it, go here: Reading Plans | Weeks…… Read more “Her perversities were as essential a part of her work as her inspirations,”

    4 de January de 202119 de January de 2021 by juliana

    Constance Fenimore Woolson

    Constance Fenimore Woolson (March 5, 1840 – January 24, 1894) was an American writer. Woolson was born in Claremont, New Hampshire. Shortly after her birth, three of…… Read more “Constance Fenimore Woolson”

    4 de January de 20215 de January de 2021 by juliana

    Most Anticipated Books | 2021

    Hi, folks, Here are some forthcoming books that are on my radar for 2021, listed in chronological order by publication date: My Most Anticipated Books January:  A…… Read more “Most Anticipated Books | 2021”

    3 de January de 202126 de January de 2021 by juliana

    That is solemn we have ended,

    Hi, folks! Thankfully, 2020 has come to an end. So, my loves, let’s look back over the books we’ve read this year and pick our favourites, shall…… Read more “That is solemn we have ended,”

    31 de December de 20206 de January de 2021 by juliana

    The music of life and living

    Dear Dorothy, We are forever exiles of our childhoods, but sometimes the smallest details can bring us back to our neverland. It takes one song, a slant…… Read more “The music of life and living”

    30 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Dorothy Evelyn Smith

    Dorothy Evelyn Smith (née Jones, 1893 – 1969) was an English writer. She attended an art school in 1911, and married three years later, in 1914, to the…… Read more “Dorothy Evelyn Smith”

    30 de December de 202030 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Such shifting winds in life

    Dear Ida, A Change of Time (2019, tr. Martin Aitken. Original: En ny tid, 2015) is the record of a woman’s passage through grief. Told through diary entries…… Read more “Such shifting winds in life”

    29 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Ida Jessen

    Ida Jessen (25 September 1964) is a Danish writer. Jessen studied literary history and communication studies at Aarhus University. In 1989, she published her first book, the…… Read more “Ida Jessen”

    29 de December de 202029 de December de 2020 by juliana

    A kind of door in oneself through which it was necessary to pass

    Dear Mary, The Friendly Young Ladies (1944. Published in the USA as The Middle Mist, 1945) is at its best when walking the tight rope of double…… Read more “A kind of door in oneself through which it was necessary to pass”

    23 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Reading Projects | 2021

    Hi, folks! It’s that time of the year again, when we reflect on what has been accomplished in the past months & start to plan ahead. Here…… Read more “Reading Projects | 2021”

    22 de December de 202022 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Happiness is so elusive it may as well be supernatural

    Dear Marie-Helene, Much of the disturbing, off-kilter sense of humour in Parakeet: A Novel (2020) comes from a finely-drawn contrast between the strong sense of reality in…… Read more “Happiness is so elusive it may as well be supernatural”

    21 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Marie-Helene Bertino

    Marie-Helene Bertino is an American writer. She grew up in Philadelphia and earned an MFA from Brooklyn College. She was an Emerging Writer Fellow at NYC’s Center for Fiction, as well…… Read more “Marie-Helene Bertino”

    21 de December de 202021 de December de 2020 by juliana

    It was under the sway of that force that I began to feel,

    Dear Gabriela, A coming-of-age story, a road novel, a picaresque adventure, a piece of nature and travel writing, an epic, and a reinterpretation of Martín Fierro through a…… Read more “It was under the sway of that force that I began to feel,”

    18 de December de 202018 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

    Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (November 4, 1968) is an Argentine writer. She studied literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2006, Cabezón Cámara published the short story…… Read more “Gabriela Cabezón Cámara”

    18 de December de 202018 de December de 2020 by juliana

    A small jewel that has always been hopelessly flawed

    Dear Isobel, Every Eye (1956) is a novella that plays with the ideas of perspective and sight, narrated by a character who is trapped in her blind…… Read more “A small jewel that has always been hopelessly flawed”

    17 de December de 2020 by juliana

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