Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Last year I started to write a review of Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller”. I read it while we …
#Eighteen
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Five years after
Five years ago I set out at 3am for Heathrow airport to catch the early morning flight to Madrid. There I connected with a flight to Quito …
Richard Powers, The Overstory
“The Overstory” by Richard Powers piqued my interest among the novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize. And once again the book …
Isaac Asimov, Foundation
For our first anniversary we decided to exhange books. What better way to celebrate a paper anniversary? Ingrid bought me the entire …
J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
“Hillbilly Elegy” is the autobiography of JD Vance, a self-professed hillbilly made good who graduated from Yale Law School. I …
Reboot
As much as I hate to write about writing, especially when I write so infrequently, I feel I need to reboot this blog. I wrote so few posts …
The Great Ocean Road
As a wedding present, Ingrid’s Mum Maria kindly took us for a trip along The Great Ocean Road, the longest war memorial in the world.
More Melbourne
On our second full day in Australia we went shopping in central Melbourne, before Ingrid’s mum Maria picked us up ahead of our trip …
Taking It Easy In Melbourne
On our first full day in Melbourne we took it easy. It was warm and sunny, so different to the weather we’d left behind!
A Day in the Air
Any sugar?
Not being much of a drinker, I’ve never felt the need to do dry January. Also Ingrid and I sat in a restaurant in Barcelona on January …
A Diary?
This year promises to be exciting so this week I tried to buy a diary. One of those day-to-a-page affairs for scribbling down all the things …