Category: Books
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Book Review: Carmilla, J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
When the word “vampire” crosses our minds, we more or less naturally think “Dracula”. But according to you, who inspired Bram Stroker? Was he the first to write stories about vampires? He was not, for sure. Vampires have been crowding myths and fiction for centuries and one of the first writers to use “vampires” as…
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Book Review: Translations, Brian Friel.
Irish literature is not the most well-known in the English-speaking world. Here is a book review that will have you want to read more Irish books.
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Book Review: A Winter’s Promise (The Mirror Visitor #1) – Christelle Dabos.
You guessed it, as I gave it five stars, I must have liked it… hmm, it is not that simple, actually. The truth is that I really liked it, but it took me a (very) long time to dive into this world. I had not read Fantasy but only Classics and self-help books since 2017…
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![[ARC] Evie Everyday Witch, Secret Magic – Elena Paige. (Children’s lit.)](https://theenglishspeakingfrenchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/orange-preschool-book-review-3.png?w=1024)
[ARC] Evie Everyday Witch, Secret Magic – Elena Paige. (Children’s lit.)
We all know that children’s books are important in the development of a child, especially when it comes to self-esteem. The message of this book is simple: be yourself. We follow the story of Evie, a young witch whose dream is to be… a normal girl.
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5 Classics everyone should read at least once.
Dear reader, As you may know, I am an avid reader. I feel like nowadays, numerous people tend to scorn “classic books”, mainly because they are sure they are boring… even tough they often never read them. In my eyes, the main reason for that issue is that numerous students are forced to read a…
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![[ARC] Book Review: Ubiety – Grzegorz Kunowski](https://theenglishspeakingfrenchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-img_8823.jpg?w=1024)
[ARC] Book Review: Ubiety – Grzegorz Kunowski
Dear reader, I usually share reviews about books I have been able to download through the platform Booksirens.com but today, things differ a little bit. In February 2020, I received an e-mail from Grzegorz Kunowski. He reached out to me in order to ask me to write a review on his latest book, Ubiety. I…
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![[ARC] Book Review: Zilch to Conversational – Daniel Vroman Rusteen (and my own thoughts on language-learning)](https://theenglishspeakingfrenchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/img_9001.jpg?w=1024)
[ARC] Book Review: Zilch to Conversational – Daniel Vroman Rusteen (and my own thoughts on language-learning)
Dear reader, It’s been quite a long time since I published a book-related post so here we are! As you guys may now, I have been working with the platform Booksirens.com for a few months now and through this platform, I get to read books for free. In exchange, I give an honest feedback. This…
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The Frenchie Book Club: The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (Can/U.S. Lit.) + in-depth review and honest thoughts.
Dear reader, As I was writing a review on Goodreads, I thought “why not writing one here?” and here I am. First, I will leave you with my Goodreads review and then, we will cover more thorough topics and dive deeper into the meaning of this amazing dystopian novel that is, according to The New…
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Reasons why you should read books and be proud.
Dear reader, Very often, we stumble across posts and videos, the titles of which look like “How to read more books” or “This is how I read X books a month” but we rarely see people discuss the reasons why they read that many books. I am personally no slow-reader but there is no way…
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