A Book and Literary Travel Blog
I have prepared a list of books with introverted characters who deeply connect to the landscape of their inner feelings and thoughts. I hope you will find this list of use and interest. 1 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman “I discovered physical solitude, something so ordinary […]
“Forty year from now there will be nothing left of us. Our memory and the photographs and the recollections of those who disappeared will all be gone, like the notes from a cello in the ruins of an old house. (…) Forty years from now, no one will remember this […]
“(…) I had to come to think that I was different. (…) I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all.” “This was the first time that I’d ever found myself […]
I have prepared a list of 20 bookstores and literary places in London that every bibliophile should visit. I tried to put them in the order based on their proximity to each other. Undeniably London has always had an immense significance as a literary hub and provided so much inspiration […]
I am currently spending a few days in the Italian city of Venice. I spend these days on roaming the city streets and being accompanied by the words of Joseph Brodsky he shared in his essay called Watermark: A Love Letter to Venice written in 1989. By the time Brodsky […]
I hope you all are doing well and stay healthy. I am sharing this little video of London during late autumn months. In the last few weeks I visited the Rare Books Fair held at the Chelsea Old Town Hall, and while in Chelsea I went to see one of […]
I made a list of books with inspirational male characters. I tried to include books from various cultures which I hope can be of interest to all of you. The list includes books from Mauritania, French-speaking Canada, Turkey, USA, Cuba, Ukraine, Algeria, Pakistan and France. The characters I appreciate are […]
“The middle years, when you’re neither young nor old, are fuzzy years. You can no longer see the shore you started from, but you can’t yet get a clear enough view of the shore you’re heading for. You spend these years thrashing about in the middle of a big lake, […]
Last Friday I went for a one-day trip to Oxford.. I took a train from London Marylebone Station shortly after 7:00 am and I arrived in Oxford shortly after 8:00 am at the time when the city was slowly waking up. Upon my arrival in Oxford I went to the […]
“She had started to pick some new books and it was a pleasure to see how comfortable she was in the library. She’d pick up the books, leaf them, stroke them, talk to them, and breathe in their odor. Bathed in the soft light spread by the sun as it […]