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Baguettes and Bestsellers: English Bookshops in Paris
Read more: Baguettes and Bestsellers: English Bookshops in ParisLike Tessel and Isabel, who wrote about the bookstores of Gent and Amsterdam, I love exploring bookstores when I visit a city. A little over a year ago, I visited Paris for the second time and made it my mission to visit as many bookstores as I possibly could (much to the annoyance of my…
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Nescio – The Poet of Prose
Read more: Nescio – The Poet of ProseI like to think that all of us here at Writer’s Block – editors, writers and readers – are lovers of the written word. It seems that for most people nowadays words only truly speak to them when they are uttered by actors, singers or public speakers, or when they’re set against the backdrop…
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A Literary Dispatch from the Stars
by HoroscopeRead more: A Literary Dispatch from the StarsGood news for every single one of us. After three years of stress and insecurity, brought upon us by Uranus and Pluto’s unfavourable position, the stars will be more propitious from the start of the new year. Although we might still be dealing with the rumpus of the last few years during the first few…
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Ode to the mixtape: a review of Eleanor & Park
Read more: Ode to the mixtape: a review of Eleanor & ParkIt starts with a bus ride and a begrudgingly shared seat. Eleanor is the new kid, slightly overweight with unruly red curls who wears hand-me-down clothes, and who is therefore an easy target for bullying. She comes from a family of poverty and a home with an abusive stepfather. Park is the complete opposite. He…
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Books between the bicycles – Special bookstores of Amsterdam
Read more: Books between the bicycles – Special bookstores of AmsterdamInspired by Tessel’s article on Ghent’s best bookstores, I planned on writing a similar guide on Berlin’s most scrumptious book deli’s after a recent weekend trip to the German capital. Turns out all the bookstores I wanted to visit were located exactly on the other side of Berlin than the neighbourhood I was staying in…
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