SNOW FEATHERS

Almost a year has passed since our last encounter. All I can say is that a break, be it short or long, can help you realise what is imp...

One of the reasons why we read is generated  by the desire to escape a crazy world, a world in which we sometimes do not find ourselves....

"Hamlet"  is, in my opinion, Shakespeare’s most complex play, with so many layers that can be tackled and even more interpret...

We read for different reasons. We read because we “must”, to find out information, out of curiosity, but I would like to believe that a ...

June is here, (and almost gone) school is over and what can be better than one of my favorite challenges...? The Japanese Literature Chal...

My God my God, why hast thou forsaken me?  Why would a good God allow evil to exist in the world? The silence we encounter while reading t...

I am (almost) speechless when my former students and current (best) friends get inspired and write about my favorite writers (after I nag...

It took me two years from wanting to read this book, to actually getting it and finally finishing it. I do not know why because I quite...

"Every woman is the architect of her own fortune."  Celebrating August as the month dedicated to Women in Translation , I ha...

July is almost here and my reading list of French literature is ready to be tackled. I love reading in French, especially French authors ...

For four years now I have challenged myself to read 30 books in 90 days (from the 15th of June to the 15th of September). This summer I also...

The month of May was full of activities and it did not give me the chance to read as much as I would have wanted, but I am looking forwar...

If you read in Romanian, then you may be familiar with this wonderful mysterious poet I fell in love with years ago, Iv cel Naiv (Iv the ...

2016 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. It is also the 452nd anniversary of his birthday, as Shakespeare is believed to have ...

“You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.”  I have been in (an artistic) love with Ethan ...

I am proudly announcing the start of the first (ever) Romanian Writers Challenge! As I stated at the beginning of January, I am planning o...

« Sur ce sentiment inconnu, dont l'ennui, la douceur m'obsèdent, j'hésite à apposer le nom, le beau nom grave de tristesse » ...

I first discovered Mircea Cartarescu back in 2001 when my college roommate introduced me to his poems, which I later decided to translate...

“I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a r...

I have read on a lot of people's blogs that they wish to drop challenges in 2016 and rely more on quality rather than quantity when it ...