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Internet works
so after a couple months without internet, it works. pretty well in fact. considering how cheap is the deal we got ( Read more... ) -
Gone for too long
I don't have internet at home anymore. That's why I'm never here. The ex roommate took it with her and we haven't been able - for various reasons, all of them adding up to 60 euros - to set up a new internet connection. I wonder when we will have it back ( Read more... ) -
I should go
I have been telling myself this since last Sunday.
I had told everybody I know that I was going to leave the country depending on the outcome of the election.
But let's say I'm too comfy in my hometown right now. With friends, family, a good job.
I'm not scared yet. I'm not angry yet. At least, not enough to shut the door and leave.
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without internet
My web connection has been dead for more than 2 weeks. Yeah, just in the middle of everything, when news pop up every two hours with one candidate or the other.
Not much is new. I've been planning my June vacation. I've been reading. I've been enjoying the spring.
Tomorrow, off to the movies. Labor Day. And Spidey's in the theaters ^^
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We need to talk about Kevin Lionel Shriver
Eva, the mother of a Columbine-style school killer, writes to her estranged husband, Franklin. She means to share with him everything she remembers from their son's - Kevin - childhood and teenage years. Kevin is currently in jail for killing a teacher, some classmates and a cafeteria worker.
This book is one of the most brilliant pieces of ( Read more... ) -
Ptolemy's gate Jonathan Stroud
I read the last tome of the Bartimaeus trilogy. It was good to read the end of the story, to know part of the djinn's past history, to follow once more the footsteps of Nathaniel and Kitty through their magician-dominated London ( Read more... ) -
A sick world, a good life
A sick world
A bomb exploded in Bagdad's book market district this morning.
Read that sentence again. Book market. This is where civilization was born. I wonder if Mr W ever learned that.
A good life
It's March 5th. For me, this is officially the beginning of Spring.
A book bonanza reached my doorstep this morning, wrapped in a box like a present. ( Read more... ) -
March by Geraldine Brooks
Alcott's Little women is probably one of the childhood books I remember most fondly and I was happily surprised to find in my bookstore Geraldine Brooks' version of the story, told from Mr March's point of view: while Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are living their lives in Connecticut, their father is surviving in the Civil War. The descriptions of the war ( Read more... ) -
Diamonds are not a girl's best friends
I just came out of seeing the movie Blood Diamond ( Read more... ) -
A candy-like book
I've read Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep this week. It felt like eating caramel or ice cream. It felt like being a teenager all over again.
I had read the reviews a couple years ago when the book went out. They were filled with praise and I was curious to know what it was. That's why I picked it up at a bookstore, not really sure of what to expect. I ( Read more... )