This post could also be called: ‘I Finally Read a Book!!!’ I think I was so fatigued from 6 years of reading for school that this summer I’ve barely been able to pick up a book over the summer. Reading a few chapters of ‘The Mayo’s Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy’ or ‘The New Basics: [...]
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‘A Lesson in Secrets’ by Jacqueline Winspear
Posted: 09/09/2011 in booksTags: a lesson in secrets, books, cosy mysteries, jacqueline winspear, maisie dobbs
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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (Kindle Edition)
Posted: 06/29/2011 in booksTags: anthony bourdain, books, kitchen confidential, Les Halles, NYC restaurants, Top Chef
I’m very slowly getting back into reading over the summer. It always takes me a while to unwind post exams, and this summer I’m pretty consumed with research for the upcoming cylon invasion. My first read was actually a re-read; something I’ve wanted to re-visit for a while – Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. An expose [...]
Busy busy
Posted: 09/27/2010 in books, foodTags: air show, Annapolis, blue angels, blue hills, cyberpunk, EAT, food, oceana naval base, road trip, Virginia Beach, William Gibson
It’s been super busy the last week or so. Surprisingly busy for one who is currently semi-retired. The weekend before last we took off for an air show at Oceana Naval Base near Virginia Beach. It was a long drive down so we broke the journey in Annapolis. A cute colonial town that houses the [...]
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Posted: 07/12/2010 in booksTags: books, crime fiction, stieg larsson, swedish detectives, the girl who kicked a hornets nest, the girl who played with fire, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the millennium trilogy
Over the course of the weekend I read the entire Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest. This was a mean feat as these books are over 500 pages long a piece. I was up until 2am [...]
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Posted: 06/08/2010 in books, UncategorizedTags: Australian fiction, books, christos tsiolkas, fiction, the slap
This is an amazing book – raw and unnerving. The story centers on the consequences of a non-family member slapping a misbehaving child at a barbecue in suburban Melbourne. How the reverberations can be felt not only by those directly involved but by everyone in their social sphere. Sides are taken. New alliances against old. [...]
It is Monday night and Alex is off playing tennis; I can’t watch Prison Break because he is not here and I don’t have enough spare time to view it twice (but it did cross my mind). So after I finished myrequisite hours of study I settle down with Derailed which is conveniently being shown [...]
(Why does tomorrow have to be Monday?) My nose hurts, my eyes hurt and I’ve got a headache. My nose hurts because I’m full of cold. My eyes hurt because I spent this morning in bed reading The Time Traveler’s Wife and the last 60 pages were so sad that I cried all the way [...]
