15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their seperate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? First published: 2009
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I’ve been wanting to participate in another Top Ten Tuesday since the last (and first) time I did it, but I wasn’t able to get around to it until now. This week’s theme is just too good to pass up, though! So, without further […]
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When a troubled model falls to her death from a Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts and calls in private detective Cormoran Strike to investigate. Strike is a war veteran – wounded both physically and psychologically – and his private life is in disarray. The […]
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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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