Books, Books, Books
All things books and literature.
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Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet; My literary Roman Empire…📚
To say that I was late to the MBF party is a massive understatement. What’s more, teenage Ellen could have really done with these books growing up… All regrets aside, what I say, with complete confidence, is that it is… 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 