a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

Hello! Did you know my blog came to life on 22nd of November 2012 ? My first post was about baseball caps, so it was fashion oriented and contained what could be now called 'outfit post'.  I opened my blog planning to write about fashion, but with time it grow to include my other interests such as art, literature and sustainable travel. So, I have been blogging for eleven years and a month! That's quite a long career for a personal (i.e. non profitable) blog, I would say. I even googled the average life span of a blog and the result indicated an average of only one hundred days. I'm glad I'm still blogging.  I've considered retirement once or twice, took a break or two, but I always came back to blogging. Why not?  Blogging can be such an educating and enriching experience. Both blogging and reading blogs is something I still love, so I plan on continuing doing it. There's much talk about whether blogs are dead or not, but if you're not doing it for a pr

 Hello! In this post, I shall write about The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild. I already reviewed this novel on my blog, so this is obviously a reread. I never understood why rereading confuses some people. When I get asked how I can read a book multiple times, I'm tempted to ask how you can listen to the same song twice. Some people can rewatch their favourite films countless times. So, why shouldn't we reread books? Rereading strengthens our language skills and makes us better readers (and potentially also writers). Rereading deepens our understanding our literature and makes us appreciate the writer's skill more.  I reread this novel only a few days ago, while I was in a hospital. My husband brought some books for me to choose and I opted for this one and Il Piacere by D'Annuzio . Normally, I don't read while hospitalized because it's hard to concentrate as I'm usually in pain and/or distracted by the screaming people and stuff. However, this time

Today I shall review The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. I was actually gifted this book. What a wonderful present it proved to be! Published in 2021, this postmodern  novel  follows two  story lines and uses framed narration.  The Island of Missing Trees  tells the life story of a Greek Turkish couple and their adolescent daughter.  This novel examines and explores a number of topics such as identity, migration, immigrant life, war trauma, memory, love and family. It's an ambitious novel that examines serious topics with due respect and sensitivity . I read it months ago, but I remember it vividly. Honestly, I cried a lot while reading this novel. It really moved me greatly. In fact, that is probably why it took me this long to finish this book review. I needed to emotionally process the story.   The Island of Missing Trees is   set in London and Cyprus. The narration isn't chronological .  The story jumps back and forth, following two main timelines, one set in moder