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Author: ella gauci

Observations from Waterstones 

The smell of old pages, the mumble of people reading, the books waiting to be picked up and taken home. … More

Books, bookstagram, englishliterature, fiction

I Read 52 Books In 2021…Here’s What I Learnt 

16,487 pages. 52 books. 2 books over my goal.  Ever since I can remember, my relationship with books has been … More

Books, bookstagram, englishliterature, fiction, reading habits

Hot Takes: Popular Classics 

When I was 15 I used to scour the internet to find lists with titles like ‘Top 50 Classic Books … More

Books, bookstagram, englishliterature, fiction, reading habits

A Love Letter to Normal People

Normal People by Sally Rooney isn’t my favourite book. It probably wouldn’t make my top five if I had to … More

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Why is everyone reading?

As a study conducted by The Guardian shows, 41% of people are now reading more books. Lockdown has pushed for … More

Books, englishliterature, fiction, reading habits

Zadie Smith’s Intimations: The Treatment of Art

Having recently read Zadie Smith’s compelling and engaging set of essays in her newest collection Intimations, which covers her thoughts … More

art, Books, englishliterature, fiction, pandemic

“You Wouldn’t Understand”: Inaccessibility within Academia 

Sometimes I think I’m going illiterate when I read critical essays. There words are in front of me – and … More

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Ling Ma’s Severance and the reality of 21st century apocalypse novels 

Ling Ma’s Severance is the ultimate capitalist apocalypse novel. Between the way it eerily seemed to predict the coronavirus epidemic … More

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Defacing Books: Annotations

I used to be a pristine reader. No crumpled pages, no scribbles in margins, not even sticky notes on the … More

Books, bookstagram, englishliterature, fiction

The Dismissal of Genre: The Case of Crime

As a reader, you start to see a hierarchy of genre forming in different sections of the community. For so-called … More

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