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Barbara Ferreres
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20/03/2014 – I am my own character, meditation on Virginia Woolf’s A Room of one’s own
Virginia Woolf once wrote in her famous feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) that “A female writer cannot afford to live her life too clearly. If she does, she will write in a rage when she should write calmly. She will write in a rage when she should write wisely. She will write…
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Barbara Ferreres
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04/03/2023 – “Never a frown, with golden brown”
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? If I were to write my autobiography, The Strangler’s “Golden Brown” sweet refrain would immediately come to my mind as an opening sentence. I am of Mediterranean Spanish decent and my skin turns golden in the summer. My dad’s all year. We never argue, and I never…
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Barbara Ferreres
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03/03/2023 – On owning books (or not)
I should be sleeping instead of sitting on the toilet writing this but, reflecting on how satisfying today’s date is and given it’s 3am, I am really glad I didn’t listen to reasonable me (for now). I was thinking about something. Well, I was reading a book (Autumn by Ali Smith, which is a really good…