Sarah Zama's Blog, page 33
June 20, 2019
Thursday Quotables – Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman retells the most reknown myths of the Norse tradition, in a way that is both faithful to the original and enjoyable for the modern reader
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June 16, 2019
Visions (James Joyce) #Bloomsday 2019
“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.”
― James Joyce (#BloomsDay 2019)
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June 6, 2019
Gang Roundup – June 2019
Dada was an artistic Avant Garde of the interwar years in Germany, one that, as many other similar artistic muvements, questioned the times and values of those years.
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May 30, 2019
Thursday Quotables – The Quickening and the Dead
Charlse Dickens investigates the death of a shady doctor. It's an investigation among the common people so close to his heart
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May 23, 2019
Thursday Quotables – The Almanack
An unassuming note in her mother's almanac about the poisoning of a dog sets Tabitha on the hunt of her mother's murder. Seacrets abound.
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May 18, 2019
Dreams (Louisa May Alcott)
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."- Louisa May Alcott
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May 13, 2019
Gang Roundup – May 2019
The post AtoZ Challenge link roundup is full of links about Weimare and the Cabaret (what a surprise!). Short writeup about my first months of 2019
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May 9, 2019
Thursday Quotables – Forgotten Murder
Forgotten Murder (Dolores Gordon-Smith) A woman visits an unknown house and has the vision of a murder. Jack Haldean doesn't believe in supernatural apparition, so there must be a resonable explenation for that event
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April 29, 2019
Zeitgeist (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)
Zeitgeist. It’s a German word. It means the ‘spirit of a time’, the inner energy of a particular place at a particular time. That's cabaret for 1920s Berlin
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April 28, 2019
Youthfulness (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)
'Americanism' was a characteristic of interwar year Europe. America became the mythical land of everything modern and young, more an idea than a true place
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