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Lavinia Rossetti

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Dracula by Bram Stoker

April 15, 2023April 15, 2023 Lavinia

Dracula. The very name brings to mind scenes of grotesque Gothic horror: looming castles with turrets circled by bats, fangs dripping with the blood of

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

February 17, 2023March 5, 2023 Lavinia

“We Earthmen have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian

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Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Lavinia

This is the harrowing autobiography of Russian university professor and Communist party member Eugenia Ginzburg, after she was wrongly convicted of taking part in a

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Articles

Articles 2022

September 17, 2022September 25, 2022 Lavinia

As much as I love to read a lot of books, I do tend to read a lot online too about all different subjects. I

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Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

September 13, 2022October 11, 2022 Lavinia

This is my chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. As I’m currently reading the book at

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 Lavinia

A man and a young boy travel together through a dark and diseased post-apocalyptic wasteland. They follow a road that doesn’t seem to go anywhere,

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Films

Joker (2019)

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 Lavinia

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro It’s been a while actually since we last watched a film, and I think this one was a good

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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

August 30, 2022September 15, 2022 Lavinia

The Catcher in the Rye is a sort of journal-entry-style novel spanning two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield, after he is expelled

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The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

August 23, 2022September 15, 2022 Lavinia

One minute, you have just finished another stressful day at work. You’ve got the Beatles song A Day in the Life stuck in your head. You are

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

August 20, 2022September 15, 2022 Lavinia

“How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or

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Hi there! My name is Lavinia, I'm fifteen years old and am home educated. This is a blog of all the things I've been up to since I was five. I hope you enjoy it here! ❤

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