Lesser-known classical books you shouldn't forget
June went by far to fast, not helped by a hectic homelife. Despite everything going on, my mind went back to one topic this month that I still haven’t figured out. At the start of the month, I wanted to make a list over queer classical authors and try to highlight some authors that aren’t... Continue Reading →
Things got a little hectic at work, but I’m here and I’m joining 20 books of summer ’20. 20 books of summer is a readthon of sorts hosted by Cathy at 746 books. The goal is to read 10/15/20 books during the summer. I’m going for the full 20 books, and then I can complain... Continue Reading →
This week’s classical meme on pages unbound, Krysta ask why people still doubt that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. I made a YT-video a while back where I talked about this theory, and focusing on class as a reason why people believe in these theory. Krysta, based on the book Contested Will, presented a cultural-historical argument, and... Continue Reading →
I need help from the great book blogging world. I stumbled over Cleo’s review of The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare. This review reminded me that while I have a strong relationship with his plays (I don’t want to say well read since I’ve hardly read any of his history plays. I don’t... Continue Reading →
This blogpost was inspired by Classics remarks, a meme posted weekly on Pages Unbound review. Last week they posted the meme: What is a classic you loved when you were younger, but feel differently about now? And this week’s meme is What is a classic you loved when you were younger, and you still love... Continue Reading →
To celebrate Shakespeare day I saw Macbeth directed Justin Kurzel. I know I’m late with the program with this film, but it did make me think about the problem with Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is often interpreted as one of the pure bad guys. She is ambitious and willing to go over bodies to get... Continue Reading →
For those who don’t know, the month of October has one of the biggest readathons in the English-speaking book-sphere. During October readers are encouraged to read Victorian books. I know that a lot of people enjoy #victober immensely, and there is a reason why it’s one of the biggest readathons in the English-speaking book-sphere. While... Continue Reading →
In august during wit-month Meytal Radzinski asked everyone to nominate their pick for the best 100 women in translation. The list is a great pool for people to find new books by non-English writing women and hopefully making more people read a bit more diversely. But, one thing that I found both a bit odd,... Continue Reading →
Sufism is a branch of Islam that focus on the internal path of the Muslim. Sufism draws inspiration from ascetic traditions and focus on how people need to empty their heart and mind of elements like earthly desire and selfish distractions so that they would be filled with nothing but Allah. By doing this, they... Continue Reading →
When I was kicked out of my apartment because it was being sold of to developers, my partner said I could move in with him. I therefore moved all my stuff into storage and was happy everything had worked out so calmly. Now we have bought our first apartment together, and we are moving my... Continue Reading →
Lesser-known gems 