In January I participated in a short story contest which was organised by my university’s newspaper. Students and staff alike could enter the contest with stories written in Dutch or English, and the ten best stories ended up in a little book, published by publisher Passage. Almost two months ago now I got an email […]
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One more week until I’m done with my midterms… But until then I’ll be working hard on my final essay for the Contemporary Writing course I’ve told you about before. For the last couple of days I’ve been all about research, reading all kinds of articles about (among other topics) The New York Trilogy, on which […]
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It’s not one of my usual posting days, but I’ve been wanting to participate in The Broke and the Bookish “Top Ten Tuesday” for a while now. So this is just an extra post this week, and I might be doing it more often because I love lists! Today’s topic is Top Ten “Gateway” Books/Authors […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Read MorePatrick 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 […]
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The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her starts to […]
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“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not…” In three brilliant variations on the classic detective story, Paul Auster makes the well-traversed terrain of New York City his own, as it becomes […]
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The origin of my love for baking remains slightly mysterious up to this day… Meaning I just don’t remember it clearly anymore. I seem to recall buying my very first baking book on a whim, and I think it started from there. This week I didn’t have any time to bake, since the new semester started […]
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Books Baking and Blogging 