As 2018 is coming to an end, I’d like to share with you how I experienced my year. It was a strange year, with a rough start, but an ending I hadn’t foreseen, but am grateful for nonetheless. If I forget the first quarter or so, I think […]
Vanaf morgen is het weer zover! NaNoWriMo, oftewel, National Novel Writing Month. Dit evenement is sinds 1999 gestart en is de perfecte manier om jezelf te motiveren om je boek te schrijven. Voor mij is dit het de derde keer dat ik actief mee doe, met het grote […]
The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force by Daniel Wallace My rating: 4 of 5 stars After reading “The Bounty Hunter Code” (TBHC after this) from the same series as this book I was hoping this book would be a bit better. TBHC was fun, […]
Bloedwetten by Sophia Drenth My rating: 4 of 5 stars Voordat ik aan Bloedwetten begon heb ik eerst twee van Sophia Drenths bronvertellingen gelezen uit de door haar verzonnen wereld waar Bloedwetten zich in afspeelt. Zowel ‘Zwart Hart’ als ‘Kleine Moordenaar’ konden mij bekoren, dus ik moest onderhand […]
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling My rating: 5 of 5 stars I picked this book up on my way to Ireland, at Schiphol Airport. I had already seen this book earlier this year, […]
Carrie by Stephen King My rating: 3 of 5 stars After reading Stephen King’s “On Writing”, which was the first book I ever read by him, I thought I should finally start reading the Master of Suspense’s books. I’m even a little ashamed I haven’t done so much […]
Last week I saw someone post on Facebook that there’s a good chance that the “Nederlandse Boekenbon” (Freely translated to: Dutch book gift card) might disappear, because people are no longer buying them. Fear now rises that this will also influence book sales as a whole, which, of […]
