Ok, so I can’t resist posting this week’s haul. Because Book Traffic on Leliegracht is going out of business, and has a 75%-off sale. Yes, 75% off. So I spent a truly delightful hour or so browsing, and found:
Multatuli’s Max Havelaar, a novel written in the 1860’s protesting Dutch colonial policy. I’ve been looking for [...]
Blogging will be light the next wee while — real life (remember that? the one without a 3:4 aspect ration) and work are making their presence felt. I’ll still pop up if anything exciting happens, but I guess there won’t be any reviews or similar for a while.
Oops. “I’ll just pop in and see if they have any Lucius Shepard” doesn’t work at the Book Exchange (Kloveniersburgwal, loads and loads of English-language secondhand, good sf section, highly recommended).
Last week’s Primo Levi (The Periodic Table) has started me on a Levi kick: Moments of Reprieve, Other People’s Trades and his Auschwitz memoirs If [...]
God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, “Sit up!”. “See all I’ve made,” said God, “the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars.” And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. [...]
I’ve added a few photos to my album site: a small selection of choice graffiti pieces from both hemispheres (a professional had been busy in Dunedin when I visited). The album is entitled “I WiLL Not dRAW AS I AM toLd”, after a delightful piece I found this afternoon.
(There are also a couple more shots [...]
From the Boekenmarkt Spui:
Primo Levi, The Periodic Table Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
“This has been a suspiciously covert attempt to hide the bungalow from officers.” And yes, I checked that date, and no, it wasn’t yesterday.
And I was checking the status of a book order, and was told: “Drop ship sent”. A bit worried by that “suppression fire”, me… (Yeah, ok, there’s an explanation. But it’s boring.)
Last weekend: yoga, and Greek folk music. (Ok, that’s not a fair description of rebetiko, but I don’t know any better.) Yay for summer!