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Mel u

@thereadinglife

The Reading Life-multi-cultural book blog-short stories, Irish literature,post-colonial Asian Fiction, classics. Katherine Mansfield, Yiddish literature

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Joined May 2010
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… A marvelous book on French literature
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A particularly delicious stack of new #books and timely #reading just now. Feeling very fortunate (and expecting some of them to be disruptive in all the right kinds of ways) with all these reasons to #LoveYourLibrary @GSPLibrary @torontolibrary
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… 2020 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… Destined to be an American classic
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… 2022 Hugo Award Winner
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… Illuminating history
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… New translation. Important addition to Yiddish Literature in translation
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… Most famous Greek Comedy. X rated and funny as a Mel Brooks movie
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… A fascinating very well done work
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rereadinglives.blogspot.com/… A delightful book
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How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control lithub.com/how-women-writers… via @lithub
How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control

How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there are as many definitions of “feminism” and “science fiction” as there are people who identify as feminists and science fiction enthusiasts—in fact, …

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Writing about one of my favourite Adichie novels, Keishel Williams @KeishelNOTKesha discusses it, in the context of book-banning, for @PENamerica pen.org/chimamanda-ngozie-ad… cc: @bookcritics
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s “Half of A Yellow Sun:” The danger of a single untold story

Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s “Half of A Yellow Sun:” The danger of a single untold story

“Denying students age-appropriate opportunities to read Half of a Yellow Sun in classrooms because the truth is too violent is denying them the opportunity to understand the truth of their friends,...

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✅RGALI, the Russian State Archives for Literature and Art. ✅ The A. A. Bakhrushin State Theatrical Museum in Moscow ✅ The Mikhoels collection at the Israel Goor Theatre Archives and Museum at the Hebrew University ✅ The Blavatnik Archive Foundation (BAF) in New York
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The Winter-Blooming Tree by Barbara Langhorst consumedbyink.ca/2022/08/24/… via @_ConsumedByInk Pub @PalimpsestPress #canlit
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Odd, Genius, or Something In Between: A Reading List on Writers longreads.com/2022/08/16/odd… via @longreads #reading #writing
Odd, Genius, or Something In Between: A Reading List on Writers - Longreads

Odd, Genius, or Something In Between: A Reading List on Writers - Longreads

“Give me the weird tics, the turns of phrase, the strange beginnings. Give me the writer in their natural habitat."

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Nicole Brossard, Distantly: translated by Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue robmclennan.blogspot.com/202… Via @robmclennanblog #canlit #quebecois #intranslation #nicolebrossard
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Grace Lau "My only routine is that I write with pen and paper." robmclennan.blogspot.com/202… Via @robmclennanblog #poetry #creativity #writing #canlit
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The Milky Way, the Pond, and the Meaning of Life: Thoreau on Solitude, Sympathy, and the Salve for Melancholy themarginalian.org/2022/08/0… via @brainpicker
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