Chocolate orange cheesecake brownies — doesn’t that combination of words just make your mouth water like there’s no tomorrow? That’s what happened to me when I encountered those words on Facebook, and the picture that came with them didn’t help either! I’ve been following Sorted Food on Youtube for a while now, and they keep amazing me […]
This week my midterms started, which in my case basically always means a whole load of stress, even if I don’t have that much to do. I do some studying, interspersed with watching YouTube videos, playing guitar and checking my Facebook and Tumblr way too often. It’s all very tiring, really. I’m not even kidding […]
When Ellie Kendall tragically loses her husband she feels her life is over. But eventually she’s ready for a new start — at work, that is. She doesn’t need a new man when she has a certain secret visitor to keep her company… Zack McLaren seems to have it all, but the girl he can’t […]
This week was the last week you could order three English novels for 25 euro at what I’d call the Dutch equivalent of amazon.com. I’d been pondering for a while if I should make use of that discount or not, since I technically don’t really have any disposable income (student loans and all that) and […]
A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music… An Equal Music is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of […]
I love music. I love singing, I love playing guitar and I’ve always, always, got a song stuck in my head (at the moment it’s Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball”, unfortunately, although I think this cover is really beautiful). However, I prefer working in silence. For my studies I have to read a lot, and I get distracted quite […]
Today my aunt was having a high tea for her birthday, and I thought it would be nice to bake something sweet and simple to bring with me. I didn’t feel like baking my usual brownies, but I thought something like it would be perfect, so I made blondies! I’d never made blondies (“blond brownies” […]
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to face and it takes us to a head-on collision with America’s greatest dream — and its […]