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It's that month again
Nanowrimo is coming, once again, this November.
I'm participating. As per usual, I have no clue of what I am going to write. I have limited time. I'm spending the sole long weekend of the month in a foreign country, as a tourist. But I am such a competitive little being that I might pull it off once more.
Who is in?
www.nanowrimo.org -
How do you see your job?
Think about it this way: what your job would look like if you needed to explain it in very basic, visual terms ( Read more... ) -
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2008 has been a year for reading murder mysteries. I wonder why but that's how it has been.
I read mysteries coming from the icy north of Europe, like Arnaldur Indridason's Jar city, The voice, I turned once more to Henning Mankell for his brilliant depiction of Swedish society as seen from Ystad, and like everybody else (well that's from seeing ( Read more... ) -
I think I have ADHD...
or maybe it goes with the job...
I cannot seem to concentrate for more than 10 minutes at a time. Then it's "let's call X" and "let's go see Y" and "damn I forgot to email Z with information"... -
Planes
I'm planning trips far far away. Argentina in March. Maybe Australia, since a close friend will be going there to work. The South Pacific where another friend will spend a couple years. It's starting to feel like a trip around the world. Like the one we took in 1991. Maybe a month would be enough for that? Buenos Aires, Melbourne and Sidney, Tahiti ( Read more... ) -
My own tribute
I spent part of the afternoon watching 10 Things I hate about you and thinking oh why do certain people die so young and why oh why do we take each other for granted. -
Books read in 2008
At some disputed barricade Anne Perry
The turn of the screw Henry James
Soul circus George Pelecanos
The adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
The last coyote Michael Connelly
Hard revolution George Pelecanos
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
Water for elephants Sara Gruen
The sweet forever George Pelecanos
Nineteen minutes Jodi Picoult
Sacred Dennis Lehane ( Read more... ) -
Gone, baby, gone
I saw Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel yesterday evening. A pretty good movie with a tight, suspensful plot, serious acting, fabulous Boston neighborhoods ( Read more... ) -
Imagine global warming
I cannot recommend enough the wonderful sci-fi series by Kim Stanley Robinson about global warming and its consequences:
40 signs of rain
50 degrees below
60 days and countingThe 3 books take place in my Washington DC (one of the heroes eats at the Indian restaurant down Connecticut Avenue where Nat and I had lunch once) and they span over dozens ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
Happy 2008 to all my readers and friends at livejournal
Best wishes to you and your loved ones: happiness, health, wealth, love, success and luck!
6 years here and counting...
Hugs to all