The madness of books

15. January 2018 The Reading Corner 2
The madness of books
This past year has been, by far, the year in which more books I have acquired. Of that I had no doubt, but this morning I was curious and I decided to take all of them out, I don’t know whether to see how many they were or to see what I still had to ...

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Dracula – book review

12. September 2017 The Reading Corner 3
Dracula – book review
Before anyone gets surprised I want to make it clear that I already knew the story and that it isn’t the first time I read this book. I read Dracula for the first time about 8 years ago, and I read it in Spanish. As you can imagine 8 years is a long time and after seeing several films my memory of the book was a bit blurred, all that not to mention that I wanted to read it in its original language.

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Benefits of reading

08. August 2017 The Reading Corner 5
Benefits of reading
As those who have been reading me may already know, I’ve been following my own reading challenge since the beginning of the year. There are many of these challenges over the Internet, they usually propose a different kind of book to read each month, but honestly that doesn’t convince me at all. Each person is ...

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A Darker Shade of Magic

22. June 2017 The Reading Corner 0
A Darker Shade of Magic
Being in Cork I bought a large number of books. I found a bookstore where my beloved classics were sold for 3 – 4 € and, of course, I couldn’t help it. One of the many afternoons that I spent immersed in the great bookshelves of the bookstore I found three books that caught my ...

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