books
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The bay window…🪟
I see myself in the books, the chiffon curtains, the posters on the wall that I can’t quite decipher. I see myself in the person who’s trying to make the ordinary, the mundane, the… limiting, beautiful. I don’t think I’ve… Continue reading
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WelcomeɉϬ
“Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing” (William Faulkner). Continue reading
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Is it burning ambition or deep dissatisfaction?
One of my resolutions for 2025 was to really dive into a branch of philosophy. I’m talking full-on, head-first, no-looking-back kind of dive. I landed on Existentialism. Why? Well, for starters, “existential” is a word I’ve been throwing around ever… Continue reading
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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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Porto, Portugal: A Guide…🌉
‘Life is filled with reasons to BELIEVE.’ So said the sign on the baby blue door near the Ribeira, and so says me. My favourite city to date? In the same way that ‘what is your favourite book?’ is an… 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 