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Books, Weekly Lists

Weekly Lists #113: Books I’m Most Looking Forward To in 2018

Happy 2018, everybody! With this being the first post of the year, I couldn’t not take a look forward, could I? This is not so much a “new releases”-post, as…

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January 3, 2018

Books, Christmas, Holidays, Tags

Booktags #9: ‘t Is the Season Booktag

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that we’ve reached the last straight line to Christmas, and this is the first book tag I’m writing? I mean, with how…

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December 23, 2016

Books

About Books #15: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Fanfiction. For the most part, either you love it or you hate. Either you get it or you don’t. And as far as Harry Potter’s concerned, there’s a couple of…

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March 10, 2017

Books

Reviewing the Classics #1: Persuasion

I study English, Dutch and French Literature and Linguistics at a shmancy university, and I know it. Throughout the years, there’s been a huge amount of importance put on how we’re…

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January 23, 2016

Books

About Books #45: The Day Is Ready For You

Sometimes, you get to books in a pretty complicated way. For The Day Is Ready For You, for example, I found it because I really like Amanda Lovelace’s poetry collection (review…

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April 20, 2018

Books, Christmas, Holidays

Mini Reviews #18: Dreaming Away for Christmas

Something about the holidays makes me want to go and enjoy other (colder, more snowy) places. Not really something that’s a possibility, right now, but hey – that’s what books…

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December 9, 2020

Christmas, Holidays, Lifestyle, Series

Dutch Christmas songs

/ December 3, 2017

One of the absolute best things about Christmas? Has to be the music. As per the usual – we usually listen to US- and UK-songs. Either in their original version or in translation,…

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Christmas, Holidays, Lifestyle, Series

Holiday candles: a wish-list

/ December 2, 2017

So here’s the thing. I love candles. The problem? The bf not so much. Oh, and I’m terrified of forgetting a candle and then getting a fire. Dramatic, I know. None the less, that has…

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Christmas, Holidays, Lifestyle, Series

Find the Calm in December

/ December 1, 2017

I love Christmas. That much should be obvious by now. But here’s the thing about the full-blown preparation: it’s stressy. There’s things to do constantly and everywhere. Either as a teacher or as…

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Blogging, Weekly Lists

Weekly Lists #111: 5 Favourite Blogposts November

/ November 29, 2017

It’s basically Christmas, y’all. And quite frankly – I don’t know that I’m ready for that! I mean, I still have to make exams for the courses I’m teaching. And I have like…

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Books

2017 Reading Challenges: November Update

/ November 24, 2017

So apparently November is already gone-ish? I mean, there’s like a week left, but what with Blog-mas starting next week (aah, I’m making myself going through that again) Anyways, some reading was done this…

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Books, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Weekly Lists

Weekly Lists #110: Books to be Thankful For

/ November 22, 2017

There’s few things in life I’m as grateful for as the ability to read. Books have shaped me in such a major way that it doesn’t do any harm to, once in every while,…

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Books, Christmas, Holidays

About Books #32: Christmas at Butterfly Cove

/ November 19, 2017

So I got this book a while ago, but work and life happened and I never got around to reading it. Then, during fall break just a couple of weeks ago, I wanted…

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Books, Weekly Lists

Weekly Lists #109: Fictional dream-careers

/ November 15, 2017

So here’s the thing about reading all the books. And also, about starting to work this fall. Suddenly, you realise how many jobs there really are out there. And how many of them you might…

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