"Shakespeare may have died over 400 years ago, but he is still very much alive today" In a recent post about Hogarth Shakespeare I shared my interest in learning about Shakespeare’s stories in simple men's language. While (randomly) looking for literature-related courses on the edX plaform, I found THE course: "Bard101x, Shakespeare Matters" by University … Continue reading Bard101x, Shakespeare Matters – I enrolled in the most engaging online course about Shakespeare
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Hello and welcome to my third WWW Wednesday! For those who are not familiar with WWW Wednesday, it is a post hosted by Sam@Taking on a World of Words, consisting of 3 questions about the past, current and future reads. So if you want to find out what I read in February, keen on reading 🙂 … Continue reading What I’m reading in February 2020
Welcome to a new bookish journey around the world! This post presents book covers of A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. Reading this book was a very interesting experience (in a good way!), so I was curious to see how its covers are depicted all over the world. Note: if you haven’t read the … Continue reading Book covers around the world: A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Few days before Christmas we went to our last theatre-related event of 2019 - "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" at Bucharest National Theatre. Once again, we went with no expectations and no idea what the play was about. We received the recommendation from a trustworthy source and we just went for … Continue reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (theatre review)
Hello and welcome to my second WWW Wednesday! For those who are not familiar with WWW Wednesday, it is a post hosted by Sam@Taking on a World of Words, consisting of 3 questions about the past, current and future reads. 1| What are you currently reading? At the moment I am reading "The Secret History" by Donna … Continue reading What I’m reading in January 2020
Today I would like to share with you something I've been thinking about for quite a long time - it's about reading reviews of books I haven't heard of (and here I include also reviews of books written by authors I haven't heard of). In a nutshell, if I do not recognize the book nor … Continue reading Let’s talk about book reviews: Do you read reviews of books you haven’t heard of?
2019 was a full year from all points of view, including books and blogging. This January I hopped on the Top Tuesday bandwagon to share my (almost) bookish discoveries from 2019. Here we go!
The time has come to wrap up 2019 and look forward to the fast approaching 2020! And what better way to do this other than sharing my favourite books of 2019? 📚 Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in 2018. It was born out … Continue reading My favourite books I read in 2019 (Top Ten Tuesday)
I've been tagged by Jenna from Bookmark Your Thoughts (thank you! <3) for the Unique Blogger Award. Shortly, the rules are: Share the link of the blogger who has shown love to you by nominating you Answer the questions In the spirit of sharing love and solidarity with our blogging family, nominate 8-12 people for … Continue reading The Unique Blogger Award with a touch of beautiful illustrations
While reading the lovely blog of Nirmala from Red Lips and Bibliomaniacs, I was intrigued by something she wrote in the review of Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood: "I was very excited when I first heard about the Hogarth Shakespeare project, where modern writers create novels inspired by Shakespeare’s plays". How is that I haven't heard … Continue reading Shakespeare retold: Did you know about the Hogarth Shakespeare series?
Readers' High Tea 