Hi there! My name is Julia. I’m a PhD candidate, or, to quote Jason in ‘The Good Place’, a “pre-successful” PhD. On this blog, I experiment with forms of writing that are less constrained than in the academia, and I expand my reading horizons. Apart from reading, I enjoy dancing, biking, yoga sessions and vegan nail polishes. Also, I love my fiancé, and his cat.
After an accidental buddy-read of The Castle of Udolpho (for which I never wrote a review, I was too happy to have just finished it!), Emma @readbynight and
Anna Burns’s 2018 Booker Prize Winner, Milkman, is the heir of a tradition of novels which build up stifling worlds where words are dangerous, worlds
Queenie, by Candice Carty-Williams, was a surprising read for me. What began as a chick lit book turned out to be an insightful novel about
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