The Best Books I read in 2014

2014 was a great year for me in almost every sense, including literary wise. Although this was the year I graduated from university and as a result spent the first months of it writing my dissertation, I still found plenty of time to read other books than the ones dedicated to French foreign policy. Without further ado, here are just five of...

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History of a Pleasure Seeker: Review

Author: Richard Mason Genre: Fiction, Romance, Adult Fiction Originally published in: 2011 Pages: 280 "There is no adventure in staying at the same place" When you want to visit Amsterdam, you book a flight and you go there for the weekend. When you want to see Amsterdam as it was in 1907, during the Belle Époque - things get a bit trickier....

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My favourite Christmas time moments: Books

Image Source We are well into December now, so naturally I am all about the ice skating, mulled wine-drinking, Christmas-pudding-eating experience. But before I head into yet another Christmas market, I thought it would be a good idea to look into some of my favourite books and find festive inspiration in them. So, here I am browsing in my library...

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5 Best: Book Accessories

A good book accessory is to a reader, what a MAC brush is to a girl - makes the whole experience more convenient. And by book accessories I mean all those little things that are there to enhance one's reading time - pretty bookmarks, little booklights and all sorts of different gadgets.  Since Christmas is upon us, those also make great...

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Five Inspirational Christmas Quotes

Keeping it festive, here are 5 quotes about Christmas that are sure going to get you in the Christmas mood!  “It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”  ~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas...

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