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1) Reshaping our reading culture

6. February 202026. April 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

Last year I was researching the development of our reading habits when I came across the article "Why We Don't Read, Revisited" by Caleb Crain, published in The New Yorker in 2018. I was reminded of it when I read the first chapter of Adam Hammond's Literature in the Digital Age. Hammond explores Nicholas Carr's … Continue reading 1) Reshaping our reading culture

Introducing a new category: Literature and Media

5. February 202026. April 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ 1 Comment

It is the 5th of February 2020. Exactly two weeks ago I came back to university after the Christmas break. A new year and a new term. One of the modules of my spring term is called "Literature and Media", and it looks promising. We are going to discuss the relationship between different forms of … Continue reading Introducing a new category: Literature and Media

“To all the boys I’ve loved before”: The trilogy

17. January 202022. March 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ 2 Comments

Here we are. The trilogy that changed the reputation of Netflix movies. Honestly, I don't know anybody who didn't enjoy the film adaptation of the first novel To all the boys I've loved before when it came out in 2018. When I saw the movie, I rewatched it, rewatched it again, and then I decided … Continue reading “To all the boys I’ve loved before”: The trilogy

My Year 2019 in Books

13. January 202014. January 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

As a devoted and diligent Goodreads-User, I participated in the 2019 Reading Challenge. I was very happy when I saw that I read 44 books out of 40, which was my primary goal. Unfortunately, I was not able to write as many reviews and blog posts as planned, but one of my resolutions for 2020 … Continue reading My Year 2019 in Books

Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

19. August 201914. January 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ 2 Comments

The Roadtrip of your life Have you ever written a Haiku in Yosemite Park with a complete stranger? Have you ever heard about highway 50 in Nevada, also known as the loneliest road in America? Have you ever had frozen mustard on the golf course of a country club in Kansas late at night? Have … Continue reading Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Atonement by Ian McEwan

23. June 201914. January 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

Her words reverberate in his head. Her words keep him going. They remind him why he has to survive. He has to come back, and live the life he deserves to live. With her. Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement begins five years earlier, on a summer day in 1935 at the Tallis’ family estate in the … Continue reading Atonement by Ian McEwan

Mr. Darcy on Tinder

16. March 201919. August 2019 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

“My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever” states Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Austen’s novel tells the story of the five Bennet sisters, and their approaches to the concepts of marriage and love in early nineteenth-century England. As the main character Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Darcy, she is ill-disposed by his … Continue reading Mr. Darcy on Tinder

Our own pilgrimage

23. February 201919. August 2019 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer want to pay their respect to Saint Thomas Becket, who was killed on the order of king Henry II, by visiting his tomb. “Whoever best acquits himself, and tells/ The most amusing and instructive tale, / Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all” are … Continue reading Our own pilgrimage

Anglo-Saxon Slang

9. February 201919. August 2019 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

The epic poem Beowulf is arguably one of the most important works of English Literature. Written in Old English by an unknown author, the original manuscript is approximately over 1.000 years old. The language of Beowulf is not comparable to any other text, and I began searching for reasons why the language appeared to be … Continue reading Anglo-Saxon Slang

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

20. January 201914. January 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ 3 Comments

Margaret Atwood once said: ''When I wrote the Handmaid's Tale, nothing went into it that had not happened in real life, somewhere in some time.''Finishing her dystopian novel, I can now officially confirm her statement. The Handmaid's Tale is set in the Republic of Gilead, in which the protagonist Offred is one of the Handmaids, … Continue reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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