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A deep and explanatory account of The Wars of the Roses 😍

Blood brothers: Richard III's battle with his siblings The three siblings Edward IV, George, Duke of Clarence and the future Richard III were meant to be on the same side in the Wars of the Roses. Yet the relationship between these heavyweights of the House of York was defined by jealousy, backstabbing and murder. Thomas Penn describes the great family....

Good reading always does the trick 😉

Diarmaid MacCulloch: ‘I got very irritated with Henry VIII’ The historian on his acclaimed biography of Thomas Cromwell, comparisons with Hilary Mantel, and his love of Scandi-noir

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Artwork: Alberto Pla y Rubio

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.” ― Michel Foucault, MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

ABOUT MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the “insane” and the rest of humanity.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/55031/madness-and-civilization-by-michel-foucault/9780679721109/

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo was born in Johnstown, New York on this day in 1949.

“You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that is what my mother made me.”
―from ELSEWHERE: A Memoir (2012)

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo turns to memoir in this hilarious and bittersweet account of his lifelong bond with his high-strung, spirited mother—and the small town she spent her life trying to escape. Anyone familiar with Russo’s novels will recognize Gloversville—once famous for producing nine out of ten dress gloves in the United States. By the time Rick was born, ladies had stopped wearing gloves and Gloversville was on its way out. Jean Russo instilled in her son her dream of a better life elsewhere, a dream that prompted her to follow him across the country when he went to college. Their adventures and tribulations on that road trip were a preview of the hold his mother would continue to have on him as she kept trying desperately to change her life. Recounted with a clear-eyed mix of regret, nostalgia, and love, Elsewhere is a stirring tribute to the tenacious grip of the past. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/218093/elsewhere-by-richard-russo/

‘It's the book that gave me freedom’: Michael Ondaatje on The English Patient The novel has been translated into 38 languages and the film scooped nine Oscars. Now, as The English Patient wins the Golden Booker prize – voted readers’ favourite in 50 years – the author reveals why he could never have been a writer if he’d stayed in Britain

Hamlet in Shakespeare’s Globe in 2018 Summer Season ❤️

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Literature & Cinema 🍿

Soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan!

“Eleanor had a long-held theory about men. She truly believed that for most men, all that talk of “being in love” or “finding the right one” was absolute nonsense. Marriage was purely a matter of timing, and whenever a man was finally done sowing his wild oats and ready to settle down, whichever girl happened to be there at the time would be the right one.”
―from CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2013) by Kevin Kwan

When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be the country’s most eligible bachelor. On Nick’s arm, Rachel may as well have a target on her back the second she steps off the plane, and soon, her relaxed vacation turns into an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/222866/crazy-rich-asians-by-kevin-kwan/

My favourite author when I was a teenage girl 😇

¿Qué tal te resulta este consejo que nos acerca Hermann Hesse, por medio de su novela Demian?

¿Qué otra enseñanza supieron regalarte sus obras? 🎁 Nos encantaría que nos lo compartas :)

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