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Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic whose prolific work includes books on Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer, but also...

  It may seem to be exclusively a place of magical excitement, but there is more to it than that. February in Venice is carnival season, ...

 Venice is not just about gondolas, canals, bridges and masks during the carnival... Venice also means classical music, and among the many...

And if this picture is not enough to make you tackle our Venice in February reading challenge, here's an interactive map of the mes...

February comes with the Venice in February reading challenge , hosted by Bellezza and myself, and I am so looking forward to reading about ...

Frida was an amazing woman with an incredible talent. She started to fascinate me back in high school, when I discovered her breathtaking ...

Today, Haruki Murakami turns 64, and since I am a huge fan of his work, I thought a short post is required. Short due to the fact that I hav...

You may remember about my participation in the Book Bloggers Holiday Card Exchange . I guess I live on a different planet and I was begin...

2012 meant 10 Reading Challenges and a lot of great books and authors that I discovered. The 71 books read during what was supposed to be a ...

The poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on 10th December 1830, in Massachusetts. She used to live in total isolation from the ...

2012 has been the year of great Reading Challenges and because I managed to read fantastic books and discover incredible authors, I will ...

Let's imagine that we do not have those piles of books under the "I will read those next month or next summer" headings and we...

 Once every few months I come across a book written by a Romanian author which really, and I mean really amazes me. I wish this had been ...

Incredibly witty Alain de Botton openly and philosophically talks about sex. I can't wait to get my hands on his latest book :) Alain...

Here I am, signing up for my first card exchange, hosted by Leeswammes’ Blog and Stiletto Storytime and I am quite excited about it, m...

It's all about Ali! by biaa on Storybird Don't mind the biaa thing, it is just a cover-up :) 

 This is probably the first time I have been disappointed by a French writer, especially after I found her first book, "Hygiene and ...

This is the first time I haven't been blown away by a Jeanette Winterson book and I even know the reason to my "un-amazement...

 Someone has finally noticed that Romanians do not read. With an average of 5 euros a year spent on books by a Romanian, we are on the la...