The Seaside Stories

Hi everyone! It's been a good while, I know... a lot has been going on during lockdown. Some good, some bad. One of the good things is that I finally launched my own art-lit magazine called Lux Lucet Zine, which gives an opportunity for artists to publish their work and reach a wider audience! You can find more information  here . I have been reading lots during lockdown, but one book in particular has stayed with me for a few weeks and I have nearly finished it (for it is 400 pages long!) and that is Dracula  (1897) by Bram Stoker. Having always wanted to read it, I finally found a copy in a second hand bookshop on Fossgate. I have to say it took me by surprise - Dracula isn't a sleazy, "oily" man after all. It's not even a love story, however many times it is depicted that way. Apparently, the closest to an accurate adaptation of the book is a 1922 silent film Nosferatu and that's all, none of the recent, more romantic, versions are. I have to a...

Hello everyone! I hope you're doing well! At times when I'm down, stressed or just need something to lift me up and I struggle to focus with my current reads, I go back to my favourites. Something about going back to those familiar worlds and letting yourself completely be absorbed by characters and text you know inside out is comforting. It's like going back to one's happy place, but created by someone else than you. You just love to be in it. It might remind you of the place you first read it at or a certain part of your life - or neither of those - and all the story does is make you feel at ease. In this post I want to introduce you to five of my comfort reads (in no particular order, apart from the first two ;) )  Are any of these on your go-to list? (All photos from various tumblr sites) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde I remember when this book got assigned for me to read for our literature class in Finland when I was about 16 or 17 years old. A...

Dear readers! Hope you're having a fantastic week. Have you been reading much? If yes, what's hot for you right now? Leave a comment below! I'm always reading 2-3 books at the same time. I mean, not literally but I will keep a couple of options on my night stand and on our coffee table as for me, what I want to read depends on my mood. I'm a big on autobiographical books and memoirs because I am always super interested in lived experience: it doesn't matter who they are or what they did, I just want to know how they felt, what did they say or do with their friends or family, what is/was their intimate passion. Without further ado, let me introduce my current reads: Over the Top ,  Mao: A Very Short Introduction and  Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night Time Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness For my birthday Joe got me nearly all of the memoirs of the Queer Eye cast; I got Tan, I got Karamo. JVN was the last one missing from the collec...