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Series in Review #1: Tintin
So before you even get started on this one – how on earth is Tintin a classic, you might think? Well – just let me tell you for now: it is. (Don’t worry,…
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About Books #4: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
So here’s the thing: it took me about 3 months to finish this book, and the first words to leave my months when I closed it were “awful but amazing” and that is…
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About Books #3: Girl Hearts Girl
So this is going to be a quicky, because I literally got this book in the mail about 2 hours ago and I’m supposed to be leaving in less than 30 minutes –…
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About books #2: Speak
I saw the movie based on this book for the first time when I was about 10, and the story that’s told in it has stuck with me ever since. Not only did…
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About Books #1: I Am The Messenger
So I finally made it to an actual book discussion – not counting the entire Reviewing The Classics-series, of course. And what book could be better to start off with, than my latest…
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Reviewing the Classics #3: Beatrix Potter’s Complete Tales
So I’m rereading classics and reviewing them – and even though this one isn’t technically Literature-with-capital-L, I absolutely feel that it does belong here (if only for the art, which is amazing) So…
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Reviewing the Classics #2: The Scarlet Letter
As I said last time, reading more classics and reviewing more books has led me to create this new series, in which I review some of the great “literary classics” which are largely…
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Reviewing the Classics #1: Persuasion
I study English, Dutch and French Literature and Linguistics at a shmancy university, and I know it. Throughout the years, there’s been a huge amount of importance put on how we’re supposed to be…
