Ellen Louise Dunn
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Art Galleries: Havens for the modern-day introvert…
Per creare un mondo unico, bisogna essere esposti alla grande arte. To create a unique world, one must be exposed to great art. – Fernando Botero What art galleries mean to me… Let’s be real, we all love art. Or… Continue reading
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What’s it all about, Italy?
“I’m so homesick for Italy that when I write about it it has that something about it that you only get in a love letter” (Hemingway to James Gable, 3 March 1919). Was it at age 7, during a boat… Continue reading
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From Porto, with love💙
The way the water sparkled never quite left me. And I’m quite sure it never will. Porto, Portugal. The place I call ‘home’ even though it isn’t. The gorgeously gloomy city that stole my heart the moment I stepped off… Continue reading
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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
Writings of a Dreamer 