A colleague passed on this book to me at the Vienna AIDS Conference after she had finished it, only a little battered. It’s written by Marina Lewycka, the same author who wrote A short history of tractors in Ukrainian, which I never read but saw in the top ten stacks quite often when it came…
The wedding went well, I’m sure you were wondering. I will maybe tell you more later this week once I have gathered some more photos (I had no time to take any so I will be relying heavily on facebook!)… Also this weekend, I think I may have completed another of my List of 26…
One of my list of 26 things to do before I am 27 is to finish at least one book every month. I love to read. As a child I was a huge bookworm and the local library was one of my favourite places. I believe one of my early teachers even asked my parents…
Possibly the strangest title of any book I have read. Mum and I both had this book on our Christmas lists this year, and conveniently both bought it for each other 🙂 Last week I had to make an overnight trip to Germany for some meetings so had around seven hours of train journey to…
The good thing about travelling a lot is you have lots of hours sitting on planes, trains, buses to catch up on all those books you have been wanting to read for aaaaages. Here is what I have consumed in the last few weeks… The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kinsolver is one that I think…
When I “left” my job in July (the internship at least, now I’m back on that scarily-adult-like permanent contract) my wonderful boss gave me an amazon.com voucher. Three months and a 10 euro tax charge later, I am the excited possesor of FIVE new books! The only difficult question now is what to start first……