Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Month: October 2024
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Book Review: Dear Life
Nobel winner Alice Munro shares snippets of life in rural Canada in the 1940s
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Analyzing the NY Times 100 Books of 21st Century List
More data research and the question – is the publishing industry becoming more inclusive?
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Weekly Opening Lines – Oct 26th
From Island Beneath the Sea, by Isabel Allende: “In my forty years I, Zarité Sedella, have had better luck than other slaves…”
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Book Review: Braving the Wilderness
Brené Brown on how to belong to yourself and others in a hyper-polarized era
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How My Reading Habits Have Changed Over Time – with charts (TTT)
A data analysis about my literary tastes
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Weekly Opening Lines – Oct 19th
From The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis: “I debated for a time as to whether I ought to open these memoirs…”
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Doramar: Stories of Those Who Were Forgotten
Booker nominee Itamar Vieira Jr. explores the universe of domestic workers, enslaved men, executioners and the insane
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Weekly Opening Lines – Oct 12th
From Home Fire, by Kamila Shamsie: “Isma was going to miss her flight. The ticket wouldn’t be refunded..”
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6 Degrees of Separation – From Ireland to Canada
Linking books from Ireland to Australia to Serbia to Chile to China to Canada and back to Ireland
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