Regardless of how much one may love reading, it is not so common to develop a bond with a book, appreciating its details to the point of feeling real emotions.
Literature is an art form, which, perhaps, itβs harder to appreciate because it uses the c...
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With this novel, I fell in love with Saramago's writing. The premise is surreal, but it leads to almost predictable consequences, as if nothing much changes, after all. But what won me over was the thirteenth chapter: after reading it, this book ente...
Death with Interruptions : Saramago, Jose, Costa, Margaret Jull
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Right from the start, this book is a wonderful promise. Perhaps, the βshort centuryβ was a little longer than we thought; I think that already before 1914, mankind had silently begun to hold back the screams that later broke out in the trenches; thos...
1913: The Year Before the Storm
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Zweig's writing always has a rare gentleness, even when narrating the objectivity of history. Perhaps because, before us, he realised that the moments that marked a historical turning point in the lives of nations are not βobjectiveβ at all: they are...
Shooting Stars: Ten Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig