Marianne79




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Reading a lot more! 1 year ago

This year I put my reading on a higher place in my priority list. And it worked! I finished 15 books since january 2007. That’s more than I would read in year. I am trying to read a couple of classics now and then because my education on literature has failed totally in my opinion. In English class in highschool we were only taught the language itself and not its literature. We had to read a few English books ourselves, but we could choose anything we liked. So I will try to continue to fill my gap in knowledge of literature.

Since january I have read the following books:

The time travellers wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The kiteruner – Khaled Hosseini
Special topics in calamity physics – Marisha Pessl
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The five people you meet in heaven – Mitch Albom
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
The secret garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
So many books so little time – Sara Nelson
The historian – Elisabeth Kostova
One hundred years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The thirteenth tale – Diane Setterfield
The wizard of Oz – Frank L. Baum
The book thief – Markus Zusak
Night – Elie Wiesel
About a boy – Nick Hornby

Currently reading: A prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving,
Slaughterhouse five – Kurt Vonnegut and Wicked – Gregory Maguire.


Graduate from university (read all 2 entries…)
One more year to go! 1 year ago

So I got my bachelors degree in art history last year and started a reasearch master after that. Since this is a two-year master I still have one more year to go. I can’t wait. I’m really ready to start a carrier in the field right now.


Take a cooking class
cooking classes 1 year ago

So I’m following a cooking class in Amsterdam, my parents gave to me as a gift for my masters degree in law I got last year.
Even though it’s not for the weak-hearted (last week I had to pull the intestants out of a chicken and prepared lobster that was still alive at the beginning of the class) I absolutely love it! Learned so many new recepies and techniques. I know that this gift is going to be an expensive one for me, for I am dying to go to the shop and buy myself new knives, pans and stuff and I know I now also want to by the best ingredients now, like nice biological meat and whole fishes.


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