Refugia | Elfie Shiosaki – This Reading Life
in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried… Refugia comes from the Latin word ‘refugium’, a noun that meant ‘the act of taking refuge’ or ‘a…| This Reading Life
in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried… Refugia comes from the Latin word ‘refugium’, a noun that meant ‘the act of taking refuge’ or ‘a…| This Reading Life
Lena Derwent had worked at Mason’s for less than a week when they started making fun of her. Highway 13 is a collection of short stories by Australian writer, Fiona McFarlane. The stories are…| This Reading Life
The Spanish war has probably produced a richer crop of lies than any event since the Great War of 1914-18, but I honestly doubt, in spite of all those hecatombs of nuns who have been raped and cruc…| This Reading Life
A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Have you ever read a bo…| This Reading Life
It’s time for another Classics Club spin. This is the Classics Club’s 38th CC Spin…and mine. Yes you read that correctly. I have participated in EVERY single Classics Club spin, althoug…| This Reading Life
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. Africa is the birthplace of humankind itself, yet little of its ancient and modern history is widely known. An African H…| This Reading Life
Yun Ko-eun is the pen name for South Korean writer Ko Eun-ju. Ever since the buzz surrounding The Disaster Tourist (2020), I have been curious about this author and her writing. When I spotted her …| This Reading Life
On the second of January, in the year 1880, three newly-orphaned sisters, finding themselves left to their own devices, with an income of exactly one hundred pounds a year a-piece, sat down to cons…| This Reading Life
and so it begins / a new beginning / not quite genesis She is the Earth is described on the title page as a verse novel but it reads more like a long poem, and like most poetry, it bears repeated r…| This Reading Life
