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What I learned as an au pair…🇮🇹
‘Au pair’, as defined by the OED, is ‘a young foreign person. This person is typically a woman who helps with housework and childcare in exchange for board and lodging’. This OED definition is like all others; it does not… Continue reading
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New Year’s Resolutions…🎆
‘Resolution’, as defined by the OED: 1 the quality of being resolute. 2 a firm decision. Continue reading
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Ian McEwan’s ‘Lessons’: A tour de force or sign of the times novel?
Ian McEwan. Master of suspense. Master of detail. Master of making the ‘everyman’ seem anything but ordinary. In 2019, he brought us The Cockroach – a Kafkaesque tale with an eye towards Brexit. This year he brings us Lessons –… Continue reading
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Jennette McCurdy’s ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’: A complex yet beautifully frank memoir of trauma, loss, forgiveness, and love…
‘But then I realize I’m just romanticizing the dead in the same way I wish everyone else wouldn’t’ (304). Continue reading
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A miscellaneous November TBR…📚
One of the questions I often get asked as a former literature student and bookseller is, ‘how do you choose what you want to read?’. I both love and dread this question because I never quite know how to answer… Continue reading
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If Autumn were a song…🎼
Music feeds the soul all year round. To this day, I still haven’t figured it out… Is it music that affects the way I feel about the seasons? Or is it the other way around? Is it the golden leaves… Continue reading
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What I talk about when I talk about Autumn…🍂
I love autumn. I love the leaves. I love when the leaves crunch under my step. I love autumn walks. I love wearing a warm coat on my walks. I love the coffee cup in my hand. I love the… Continue reading
Writings of a Dreamer 