Monthly Archives: October, 2012
Book Review- Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Reblogged from Always Packed for Adventure!: Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower has plagued me for years. It’s one of those novels that I’ve always seen prominently displayed … Continue reading
Something about Q
That’s quite right: the least used letter in the English language has to be “Q“. Not only that, but most words beginning with the letter “q” are always followed by … Continue reading
This is an age for Hermeticism: short, concise, dense verses
Hermeticism was an Italian poetry movement which developed in the 1920s and 1930s in the wake of Modernism. Apparently obscure and hard to interpret, Hermetic poetry was constructed as a … Continue reading
Abstract Architecture: Part 3 – The Crystal Palace
While the first two examples of “abstract architecture” that were featured in this blog were actually built or started, we can say the Crystal Palace was a very well established … Continue reading
Legacy of 1898: what remains of Spain’s decadent generation
In Spanish, the term “Noventayochistas” (literally, “Ninetyeightists“) covers The picture of this post, a painting by Eliseo Meifrén y Roig really says it all: Spain was sinking. Jose Martínez Ruiz, … Continue reading
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Reblogged from JoV's Book Pyramid: In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Revés delights … Continue reading
Review: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Reblogged from Quite Novel: When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market … Continue reading
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Review
Reblogged from : Oh, Miss Jean Brodie… She is a woman “in the prime of her life.” Or so she continually tells her class of young ladies at an Edinburgh … Continue reading
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