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December 29, 2019
The Best Books Of 2019 You’ve (most probably) REALLY Never Heard Of
A week or two ago I saw yet another of those Best Books of 2019articles in An Important Newspaper. I was surprised by how predictable that list was, but not by the complete absence of indie writers. One of my Twitter followers tagged the article’s author, mentioning the indie scene never getting noticed unless the […]
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December 23, 2019
Happy Solstice!
Last Christmas Until the early 2000s, we celebrated Christmas as one big squabbling family. I personally made sure that the TV would stay off. Smartphones weren’t a thing yet. There were always fifteen or more of us, kids and adults from various parts of the country. My uncle would tell fascinating stories about his ulcers […]
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December 11, 2019
I lost a friend
The last few years have been filled with deaths of famous artists. I’m only going to list three – Bowie, Prince, George Michael. All three shocked me, because those artists have always been around and I somehow assumed it would never change. Bowie, in particular, had more lives than a cat, how could he just […]
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November 30, 2019
Work in progress, or the creative process
I’ve been asked to provide some insight into my creative process. This made me feel like a total ~*hipsté-artisté*~ – I never really sit down and open my laptop thinking “ooh, it is time indeed to engage in my creative process” – but it coincided with a curious event. The book I am now working […]
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November 21, 2019
Good Omens and American Gods
Recently I’ve spent a few frustrating days catching up with TV. I rarely watch anything, but when I found out that two of my favourite books – Good Omens and American Gods – were receiving the visual treatment, I knew that within ten years I’ll sit down and watch, and that I will have a great time! […]
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November 8, 2019
Marian L. Thorpe on her Empire’s Legacy series
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Marian L. Thorpe, the author of Empire’s Legacy trilogy (out now as complete omnibus version in paperback and e-book – an absolute steal at $5.99) – one of my favourite reads of the year so far. Bjørn asked a hard and insightful question: what is my series, Empire’s Legacy, […]
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October 29, 2019
Village people III
Part I • Part II …and after all this fun and games I sort of broke. Living with an invisible chronic illness that limits your energy means that there are limits to your energy. (In)conveniently, I never remember that until the red lamp is not even blinking in a warning, but is the only […]
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October 9, 2019
Village people II
Part one I kind of lost track of chronology due to sheer exhaustion, so this instalment won’t be neatly divided into days of the week. My dear friend G arrived on Saturday and ensured that I will remain grateful forever by offering to paint ceilings. My spine makes various things impossible – painting ceilings is […]
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October 5, 2019
Village people
Photo: my birthday party. This is not the final decor of the living room. We’ve now officially moved out of Amsterdam. The place where we now live, Almere, is a small-ish suburban-ish town-ish – I’m going to tell everyone it’s a village, because I like the idea of living in the countryside more than in […]
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September 1, 2019
Heat the rich
Judging by my social media and the news articles, humans finally figured out that the climate crisis is 1) real, 2) going to kill us all. Obviously “all” is an incorrect word to use, because the rich – who are causing all this – will do just fine. (The American president, for instance, didn’t attend […]
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