Tag: Maritza Dubravac
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#NotAllMen
Maritza shares her personal experiences and feminist anger and included a great reading list as well!
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The Best Books We’ve Read This Year
Just like last year, we asked our contributors, book clubbers, and readers to share the best books they read this year. We have 15 lists for you, consisting of 69 separate books and a whole bunch that we all loved. These are our favorite novels we read this year, but we’d love to hear about yours…
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Breaking Up: A Bookish Timeline
I’m single again. After three years of not being single. Three years in which I thought that he and I were right for each other. Would get old together. Big fat Bosnian wedding. (Maybe/probably) children. A cat. Lots of books. A house for all of the above. That sort of stuff. I was wrong. Also:…
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Yaa Gyasi On Writing the Book That She Wanted To Read As a Teenager
Last week Yaa Gyasi visited BorderKitchen to talk about her debut novel Homegoing. Moderator of the evening was Fiep van Bodegom, editorial secretary of De Groene Amsterdammer. Homegoing starts with the stories of two half-sisters who both grow up in Ghana but will never meet each other. One will be sold into slavery, while the…
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The Best Books We’ve Read This Year
We’ve asked our contributors and book clubbers to share their favorite books they read this past year. We have eleven lists for you, consisting of 56 separate books and a whole bunch that we all loved. So these are our favorite novels of the year, but feel free to leave yours in the comments! And…
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Dumbledore’s Wise Words
“We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.” These wise words aren’t mine; they were spoken by Dumbledore, and even though he might be a fictional character, at the moment it feels like he’s addressing these words to me. See, originally this column was supposed to be about my…
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Two Evenings With Hanya Yanagihara
Last week Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life, was visiting the Netherlands and we managed to attend two events with her and had a great time at both! She was at BorderKitchen on the 4th of October and at John Adams Institute on the 5th. Maritza and Esmée will share the highlights of these…
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Procrastination
Let’s talk about something that I’m apparently quite good at: procrastination. I’ve been meaning to write a new column about my (bookish) life for months now. But as it turns out, the last time I actually did that was back in July, right before my vacation to Croatia and Bosnia. All I can say is…
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The Best Books We’ve Read This Year
We’ve asked our contributors and book clubbers to share their favorite books they read this past year. We’ve got 17 of these great people to share their best reads, which makes up a list of 84 different novels that you might still want to try! If you’re curious about our favorite books from last year, you…
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Crossing Border: A Book Lover’s Paradise
Last week we visited Crossing Border and met some great authors. In case you missed it or if you just want to relive it, we’re sharing our report of the festival!
Bored to Death book club 