Sara Martín
saramartin.bsky.social
Sara Martín
@saramartin.bsky.social
I read, I write, I teach, I learn
English Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/
BLOG The Joys of Teaching Literature
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/blog/
I co-edit Hélice, https://www.revistahelice.com
Me apunto a celebrar el Día Internacional del Hombre... que sabe ser buena persona, no le importa mostrar su lado vulnerable, está siempre dispuesto a cuidar de los demás y muestra su empatía.
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Book of the day
Pat Barker: Regeneration 1991, The Eye in the Door 1993, The Ghost Road 1995.
A great trilogy about WWI with poets Sigfried Sassoon and Wilfrid Owen, and the fictional protagonist, Billy Prior. In homage to them
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November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Book of the day
Doug Bradley, Sacred Monsters 1996
Bradley played the Cenobite in the Hellraiser film series and had much to say about the experience, so he penned a very interesting book!
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November 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Book of the day
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil , or the Two Nations (1845)
Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister and a fine novelist in Sybil Disraeli called the divide between poor and rich ‘the two nations’, a label that stuck to our days
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Book of the day
George Du Maurier Trilby (1894)
The novel where the villain Svengali was introduced to the world by the father of novelist Daphne Du Maurier. A tale of Parisian Bohemia and young, up-coming star Trilby. Enjoy!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilby_...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hemos celebrado con una mesa redonda 30 años de Estudios Culturales en España, en el congreso nacional de Estudios Ingleses/AEDEAN, en Vitoria-Gasteiz @aedeaninfo.bsky.social
David Walton
Sara Martín
M. José Coperías
Felicity Hand @draupadi53.bsky.social
Manuel Estévez
Antonio Ballesteros
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Estupendo rato el que he pasado hoy en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava en Vitoria-Gasteiz. Si no podéis ir, tienen su catálogo online.
Reivindico los museos de arte locales - hay mucho que disfrutar en ellos.

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November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Book of the day
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Not all would agree this is an anti-war novel but it’s an extremely candid narrative about fear and cowardice in combat, which anticipated the literature of WWI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Book of the day
John Galsworthy, The Man of Property (v. 1 The Forsyte Saga) (1906)
Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett were swept under the rug by Virginia Woolf as pedestrian novelists, but both are worth reading. Give them a try!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Jacinds Ardern's A Different Kind of Power: Compassion, Courage and Stepping Away.
A great political memoir about kindness in politics - a lesson to be learned by those currently in power
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Book of the day
Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends (1990).
A beautiful paean to women’s friendship in 1950s Ireland.
Don’t miss the film adaptation by Pat O’Connor!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Escuchando a #Rosalía mientras intento hacer hopescrolling - muy feliz que al fin haya vuelto la del primer disco. ¡Se la echaba mucho de menos...!
La cosa religiosa me la tengo que pensar, pero es menos de lo que se ha dicho (creo)...
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Book of the day
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
A semi-autobiographical novel about childhood in India, and how the small things are what make us understand life itself. A real gem!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort (2020) I argue that villains' stories are cautionary tales against the excessive empowerment of patriarchal men. Heroes eliminate them to keep the status quo intact.
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Book of the day
Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, 1991
Yes, the (cool!) book that started the absurd fashion of naming generations after alphabet letters and not decade of birth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generat...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
‪Book of the day
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
A brilliant novel and the winner of quite a handful of awards. And, yes, there’s the film…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eng...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Book of the day
William McIlvanney, The Papers of Tony Veitch (1983)
The second novel with investigator Jack Laidlaw and, no doubt, one of the pioneering Tartan Noir novels. Don't miss either McIlvanney's best novel The Big Man.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pap...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (1981).
Or Knife (2024), Rushdie’s poignant memoirs after the terrible attack he survived.
Really, anything by this truly great writer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnigh...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife:_...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Book of the day
Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (1978).
Palestine gave us this wonderful thinker, and might give us many more if Palestinians were allowed to thrive.
Shame on the genocidal monsters!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Book of the day
Connie Willis, Bellwether (1996)
It’s science fiction and it’s delicious – that’s recommendation enough!
Everything by Willis is just great.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwet...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Book of the day
It’s Halloween… so…
Xavier Aldana Reyes, Contemporary Body Horror (2024)
A great book by one of the top Gothic scholars today!
www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profil...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
You might want to read Mary Shelley's novel, too, you know?, the original text that gave us Frankenstein and his monster...
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Book of the day
Ken Gelder’s Reading the Vampire (1994)
Add your favourite vampires of the last 30 years to this excellent (and brief) introduction to the figure by a first-rate specialist in popular fictions
findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/1292...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
No hay novela que pueda competir con estas descacharrantes memorias de Carles Armengol, y sus años en el bar de sus padres en Collblanc, entre Hospitalet y Barcelona. ¡Menuda galería de personajes esperpénticos!
Tiene nuevo libro: 'Matar un bar'
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October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Book of the day
Alan Warner, Morvern Callar (1995)
A grim view of Scotland through the p.o.v. of a young, disaffected woman who does not even care her boyfriend has killed himself – difficult, provocative and challenging
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morvern...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM