Once upon a Reading

Welcome to my blog, in which you can mostly find reviews, written in the language I happened to read the book (that is, English, Romanian, French or Italian). However, my mother-tongue is Romanian, so beware ☺ !

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Mircea Cărtărescu, "Solenoid"

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 – Humanitas 2015 ISBN 978-973-50-5059-7; 838 p Perioada lecturii: 5 septembrie – 12 noiembrie 2016 Votul meu: M-am abțin...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Dan C. Mihăilescu, "Castelul, biblioteca, puşcăria. Trei vămi ale feminităţii exemplare"

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- Humanitas 2013. ISBN 978-973-50-4250-9 ; 194 p. Perioada lecturii : 5 – 17 octombrie 2016 Votul meu: Cînd pala...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Al. O. Teodoreanu, "Politice şi apulitice"

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- editura Victor Frunză, 1996. ISBN 9-789-739-120-159; 70 p. Perioada lecturii: 11 decembrie 2012 Votul meu: Am dat...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Lucian Boia, "Strania istorie a comunismului românesc (și nefericitele ei consecințe)"

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 – Humanitas, București 2016 ISBN 978-973-50-5278-2 ; 230 pagini Perioada lecturii: 22 septembrie – 4 octombrie 2016 Votu...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Alexandr Soljenițîn, "Arhipelagul GULAG" vol. al III-lea

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– e-book; traducere, note și tabel cronologic de Nicolae Iliescu; Postfață de Ion Vasile Șerban (ap ă rut la Editura UNIVERS București, 199...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Kingsley Amis, "Jake’s Thing"

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  – Penguin Books 1980, ISBN 0140050965/ 9780140050967 ; 288 p. Read from August 15 th to September 9 th 2016 M...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Samuel Beckett, "The Unnamable"

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 – e-book Read from: September 25 th to October 3 rd 2013 My rating: Imagine the creative impulse is a black hole ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Ludmila Ulitskaya, "The Funeral Party"

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– Translated from the Russian by Cathy Porter – e-book Read from August 29 th to 31 st 2016 My rating: I definitely ...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Sarane Alexandrian, "Istoria filosofiei oculte"

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 (Histoire de la philosophie occulte ) – Humanitas, 1994,   Traducere de Claudia Dumitriu. ISBN 973-28-0438-6 Perioada lecturii: 29...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

John Updike, "Rabbit, Run"

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– Crest Books, 1965; 256 p. Read from June 16 th to July 21 st 2016 My rating: I knew almost nothing about John Upd...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Jonathan Gottschall, "The Storytelling Animal (How Stories Make Us Human)"

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- Mariner Books, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-544-00234-0 248 p. Read from June 22 nd to July 16 th 2016 My rating: So...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"

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 – e-book Read from: February 17 th to 27 th 2014 My rating: Oh, these modernists, what a mess they’ve made of the na...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Annie Dillard, "Living by Fiction"

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 – Harper Perennial 1998; 192 p.; ISBN 0-06-091544-7 Read from May 31 st to June 21 st 2016 My rating: With her “...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Umberto Eco, "Le pendule de Foucault"

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 – (Il pendolo di Foucault) Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle 1990, ISBN 2-253-05949-8, 656 p. Traduit de l’italien par Jean-Noël Schifano ...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Edmond Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"

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 – ebook Lu du 7 au 14 juin 2016 Mon vote : Quand mon groupe de lecture  a proposé pour le mois de juin le texte Cyran...
Monday, June 6, 2016

Yasunari Kawabata, "House of the Sleeping Beauties"

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 – e-book Read from April 21 st to 22 nd 2014 My rating : I’ve always had a certain uneasiness in how to approach As...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Elena Ferrante, "The Story of the Lost Child"

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(Book Four of the Neapolitan Novels – Maturity, Old Age) – Storia della bambina perduta . Translation by Ann Goldstein – e-book. ...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

Elena Ferrante, "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay"

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- Book Three of the Neapolitan Novels   ( Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta ) Translation from the Italian by Ann Goldstein – e-book ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Elena Ferrante, "The Story of a New Name"

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 – e-book ( Storia del nuovo cognomen - Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein ) Read from May 13 th to 16 th 2016 My r...
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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Agatha Christie, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

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 – e-book Read from May 5 th to 10 th 2016 My rating : Umberto’s Agatha If you are looking disconcertedly at ...
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