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My Thoughts on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights
Out of all the Dostoyevsky short stories, I wasn’t expecting the first one I read to be White Nights. I have requested Notes from a Dead House from the library, and in turn White Nights feels like the opposite-most piece of literature of his to read. Nevertheless, I read it and have many thoughts to…
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Classic Poetry in Rumi’s Selected Poems
Now, I tested myself with this one as I don’t usually gravitate toward poetry anyway, let along classic poetry, but I have seen so many excerpts of Rumi’s poetry and teachings throughout the years, I knew I had to give the collection a try. As I anticipated, I was a little disconnected from the work,…
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How I (Plan To) Balance Reading and Writing
As an academic, a researcher, an avid book lover, a curious reader, and someone who enjoys a lot of different things, there comes a time where a balance must be struck. I need to read academic texts but also books for pleasure, I need to write for my PhD thesis but also these book blog…
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Let’s Talk About Ray Bradbury’s Dystopian Classic Fahrenheit 451
Did you really think I wouldn’t pick up the classic book about books and media literacy? How could I pass up Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 when the opportunity to read scholarly classic academic literature arose? It it true I hadn’t read Fahrenheit 451 before now, and I have more than a few things to say…
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Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector’s Short, Sombre Brazilian Classic
There’s a line on page 8 that summarises Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star perfectly – ‘what I am about to write can’t be absorbed by minds that are very demanding and covet refinement.’ That could also sum up her writing in general, but I found it profound in the first few pages of this…
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A Sinister Mystery in Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
This dark academia is probably the darkest of my selection here. Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is a YA dark academia novel that not only delves into serious, heavy, and dark subjects, but criticises many sexist and elitist elements surrounding these topics, especially in an private academia institution. It is a hard-hitting read,…
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The Succinct, Tragic Tale of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
As far as classics go, I am well behind in the literature. It honestly is a genre I struggle with, as has been established in various posts like The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four, and not-so-obviously my Frankenstein where I talked about Mary Shelley…
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Tantalising Dark Academia in An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson
I don’t quite know how to word this, so let me word vomit for a bit to get my thoughts across. I have just finished An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson and my head is a bit everywhere. This dark academia novel laced with horror and supernatural elements has held my attention for a…
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I Love Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven and Annabel Lee
I am not a poetry person per se, but I can appreciate them when they come across my path. Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven and Annabel Lee have been elusive, but I have finally laid eyes upon the masterpieces and found them compelling, enchanting, and so profoundly lyrical they sing from the pages on which…
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Classic Crime Fiction in Ngaio Marsh’s A Man Lay Dead
A pillar of Golden Age Crime Fiction, Dame Ngaio Marsh is one of New Zealand’s most prolific authors, and her Roderick Alleyn crime fiction series is extensive and widely popular. So, after taking so long to finally pick up one of her books, I grabbed A Man Lay Dead to dig into this crime fiction…
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