A little late, but I’m excited to share with you the cover for Kelly-Marie Pollock’s new novel, Death Bringer.
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Zwischen Immer und Nie: An Exploration of Infatuation and Desire in Andre Aciman’s ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Infatuation is often synonymous with teenage crushes and belonging to something unattainable. It’s all consuming and yet, confusing, existence can overcome both the recipient of such infatuation and the one afflicted. In its own way, infatuation is an illness. Born of an uncontrollable desire that blurs the lines between obsession and love.
One important consideration is whether to call infatuation ‘love’. The qualities of such an emotion mimic those we associate with love – strong admiration, deep caring for another, in romantic ways, a physical attraction. But infatuation pushes love into deeper waters, where obsession merges with possession and the afflicted becomes consumed with the mere idea of the one they desire. Underneath it all, this is the true nature of infatuation.
Andre Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name encompasses all sides of infatuation, love and, most importantly, desire. It examines the very core of desire and what it means to be intimate.
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Why Should You Read? #WorldBookDay
World Book Day is held on the first Thursday in March every year. In 2020, it was held on 5th March.
This day was created by the registered charity of the same name, to celebrate stories and encourage reading.
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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
What do I know about love?
Admittedly, very little.
I know there are a million different types of love, if not more. There’s familial love, friendship, pets (although some will argue pets count as family). There is romantic love, love you hate to feel, love you long to feel. There’s the love you feel for your favourite character, that ‘soft spot’ you hold for the cute barista in your local coffee shop. There is the love that hides in the furthest corner of your mind for the person you wish you could have, but know you can’t. Or the love that leaps out whenever you’re around them. It is the reflection of yourself in the water as you walk across your favourite beach. It is in the kiss goodbye in the hospital ward before the machines are switched off. It is the laughter with the bartender who ‘just got you’. It is the free fall of a bungee jump, hair wrapped around your face and adrenaline pumping through your veins. It is the silence as you’re immersed in your favourite book.
Love is a million things and more.
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Invitation to Poetry by Mihai Brinas
For me, poetry has always been a way of bleeding onto paper. Seeing the raw emotions of the poet, the voice, is what draws me to them in the first place.
I’m even more of a sucker for romantic poetry. Sonnets, villanelles, modern poetry that doesn’t follow any structure; if it’s about love, I’ll read it.
Love is the language of poetry after all.
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Chronicles of Chaos and Consonance by Kalybre the Eclectic
Poetic language is certainly hard to master.
You need to be descriptive but not too complicated. Elegant with your words but simple enough for the imagery to flow and dance on the page.
One thing about poetry is just how subjective it can be.
Which makes reviewing it quite a challenge.
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How To Write A Book Review
Do you know what it takes to write a book review?
From thinking of formatting to writing style and even to how you should conclude it, reviewing a book takes more effort than you’d think.
It’s a cliche case of “easier said than done.”
Or is it?
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