Dresden At Night

Dresden at night

"So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams."

~ Neil Gaiman, Worlds' End (The Sandman, 8)

Book recommendations based on your favourite authors

1. Oscar Wilde

Edward St Aubyn - Patrick Melrose

If you love Oscar Wilde i would recommend St. Aubyn's amazing novels. They are full of wit, cunning irony, upper - class critisicm and dry humor.

2. William Shakespeare

Margaret Atwood - Hagseed

Part of the "Hogarth Shakespeare Series" this is a brillant retelling of Shakespeares play the tempest.

3. Lewis Carroll

Michael Ende - Momo

Similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Ende takes us on a young girl's magical journey in which she has to bring back the "stolen time".

4. Stephen King

David Mitchell - Slade House

Stephen King himself recommended this suspensful novel about an abnormal house: “Hard to imagine a more finely wrought and chilling tale of the supernatural. One of the rare great ones.”

5. Suzanne Collins

Koushun Takami - Battle Royale

This book has a very similar storyline to Collins great Hunger Games Saga: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing.

6. Jane Austen

Goethe - Elective Affinities

A love story just as sharming and complicated as Jane Austen's beloved works: Eduard and his wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet but idle life in their estate, when their piece is fastly thrown into chaos as he invites his friend the Captain and she invites her niece Ottilie to stay with them: a story of forbidden love begins to grow as they both form attraction to their guests.

The smallest and prettiest book i own

It's a german poetry collection by Goethe

"You I saw, your look replied,

Your sweet felicity, my own,

My heart was with you, at your side,

I breathed for you, for you alone."

~ Welcome and Farewell by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Some of my favourite literary/ academic movies

1. The Oxford murders (2008): This one is great for people who love mathematics, mysteries and murders. A suspenseful thriller for all admirers of the dark academia aesthetic.

2. Me and Orson Welles (2008): This one unfortunately is a lesser known movie. A big recommendation for everyone who has a love for Shakespeare, theatre and period dramas.

3. My afternoons with Margueritte (2010): This is a heartwarming french movie about a unique friendship between an old book-loving lady and a younger, poor educated craftsmen. She shares her wisdom with him and introduces him to the world of literature: A touching ode to loving books and bringing people together with literature.

4. The words (2012): This one is a touching and highly underrated movie about the power of words and books. It is a beautiful love story, thriller and drama all in one and tells the story about a writer during different timelines and dimensions. It is basically a book within a movie where the protagonist (a famous author played by Bradley Cooper) bears a big secret.

5. A beautiful mind (2002): This has to be one af the most beautiful movies of all time. Telling you to much about it would only take something away from the experience of watching it for the first time. Just watch it for yourself and be prepared for a huge twist and one of the most heartwarming, intelligent films ever produced.

Books like Dorian Gray?

I am looking for good Horror/ Mystery Literature like the Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein or the stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Do you guys have any recommendations for me? Am not as familiar with that genre as i would like to be.

Mine are Bellini and Donizetti. I totally get why Richard Strauss isn't your favourite either.

okay so I am convinced that every opera nerd has two (2) composers that everyone else seems to love and/or respect a lot but of whom they inexplicably aren’t huge fans, so everyone reblog with your two

mine are Bellini and Richard Strauss *ducks for cover*