Category: Book Review
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Review: Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism
In 2023, my best friend (the one I mentioned in another book review) and I took a trip to Florence. On our last night, we realized that most of our adventures over the past five days had been spontaneous. One such adventure was to the Great Synagogue of Florence. Since I’m technically Jewish (despite being…
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Review: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Since I last wrote, I’ve received countless rejections and a couple acceptances. I’ve performed in my first poetry slam competition, and been recruited as a featured poet for a festival in Oxford. I’ll post next week about that, but just know the swings and roundabouts are giving me motion sickness and I guess that’s a…
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Review: Táin Bó Cúailgne
Yesterday, my best friend and I listened to the soundtrack of EPIC the musical. As if my mind wasn’t already fixated on mythology, this reminded me I need to review a different epic: The Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúailgne). What it’s about: An Irish queen steals a brown bull from Ulster to one-up…