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
I'm reading Virginia Giuffre's memoirs, Nobody's Girl, and that anyone can think of pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell seems to me absolutely aberrant.
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
M'han fet riure els llums de Nadal del carrer Aragó...
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Book of the day
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
The quintessential Victorian sensation novel… find out what her secret is…ah, the dangers of domestic life for men…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Au...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Book of the day
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847).
Brontë REJECTS violent, abusive Heathcliff and so does Cathy. The right couple are young Cathy and Hareton.
Blame film adaptations for the TOXIC ‘romantic’ reading.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wutheri...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Mi deseo para hoy, Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer, es que pronto sea innecesaria esta jornada.
Hay que apelar a los hombres que también aborrecen la violencia para que nos ayuden a parar a los violentos.
Las mujeres merecemos respeto. ¡No más misoginia!
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Book of the day
Undertones of War (1928)
It took on average about a decade for the best memoirs and fiction about WWI to be published. This is one of the finest memoirs, by English poet Edmund Blunden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underto...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Book of the day
Richard Dyer, White (1997)
A provocative classic of modern cultural criticism, aiming at considering racialization from the unusual angle of examining whiteness and how whites have self-represented.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Hay una exposición de Annie Leibovitz en A Coruña y una de las fotos es esta. 2006, creo. Se publicó en un montón de revistas.
themopfoundation.org/es/exhibitio...
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Book of the day
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933), Testament of Experience (1957)
50 years in a woman’s life and a particularly poignant narrative of gains and losses in the first volume, on WWI. Prepare to weep!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testame...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Book of the day
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
WWI was an appallingly traumatic event and Fussell did a great job of approaching its literature from a fresh angle, right when the Vietnam War was ending
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Book of the day
J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (1952-55)
Tolkien always thought of TLOTR as a single novel, not a trilogy. Peter Jackson did a great job of adapting it for the screen, but please read Tolkien!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lor...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Bar...
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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!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Br...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellrai...
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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.

arteederrenmuseoa.eus/es/
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