1. Meet Regularly
You should try to meet regularly. I would suggest once a month. Make sure that it is a day and time that everyone can make. I would suggest the first Wednesday of the month for example. Continue reading
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The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko: a book lost in translation
Readers! If there is a fantasy book or series that has you hooked, please let me know! From one desperate fantasy reader to another… I must get my fill of fangs, adventure, and the quest for good and evil! Continue reading
Bookish Adventures in Leuven, Belgium
Leuven is a relatively small town near Brussels, Belgium. It is a classic university town with bustling city life, cheap beer, and lots of photocopy centres. The university library looks a little like this…. It very grand and somewhat mystical in a way. It also comes with its very own (what I like to call) … Continue reading
Nordic Noir: a literary tour of Sweden
When I go to new cities/countries, the first thing I want to do is check out the local food and then see what bookstores and the types of books that are around. Somewhere in between these two things, I may end up buying another scarf for my collection… Continue reading
Spelling on the internet: check yourself before you wreck yourself
You have no idea what a person’s story is, and making jokes or rude comments about someone’s spelling or grammar doesn’t make you smarter, funnier, cooler, or better. It makes you a jerk. And nobody likes a jerk. Continue reading
Trigger Warning All the Books
I used to think trigger warnings were pointless before I had anything to trigger. Continue reading
Funny Micro Book Reviews of 19th Century Literature
Corrine, or Italy – Madame de Stael (1807)
If you can’t get the man of your dreams, let him marry your half sister. Before dying of a broken heart, teach your half sister all your tricks so he’ll never be able to forget you. Continue reading
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Mr Clive and Mr Page: pyschogeography and a different kind of review.
I recently read the book Mr Clive and Mr Page by Neil Bartlett. It is a truly fascinating book that makes you question your notions of reality and narrator reliability. The notion of the twin, or in this case double, plays a strong and central role in the novel since Mr Page and Mr Clive … Continue reading
7 Ways to Read More
In our busy world it is hard to find time to do all the things that we want to do. Whether its exercise, spending more time with friends or family, learning a new language, or reading more, we somehow lose time without evening knowing how it happened. Our time does not seem to feel like … Continue reading
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Fluid Identity: what it means to be Bharati Mukherjee’s “Jasmine”
“We murder who we were so we can rebirth ourselves in the image of our dreams.” (29) This is, for me, the most powerful sentence in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine. In this one sentence it summarises the story of the novel by embodying the nature of transcontinental lives and living. The main protagonist in Mukherjee’s novel … Continue reading
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