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…
last weekend Rasmus and I made the popcorn, opened the bottle of wine and sat down to watch Oceans 11. partly because neither of us had watched it in a while. mostly because I am so excited about our “honeymoon” to the USA in May and the two nights we’ll be staying on the strip…
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…
Yesterday, 11th November, was a public holiday here in Belgium. Am I the only one who gets all the names of these holidays mixed up? I mean, I knew that yesterday was about remembering those who died in war. But all the public holidays seem to have long names beginning with “A” and I kept…