Soooo… The last few months have been crazy and blogging kind of got pushed aside. Now, being in home-isolation because of the Corona-virus (don’t worry, I don’t have it. Everybody in the Netherlands has to stay home as much as possible to prevent spreading of the virus), I finally had the time to look at …
This. Is. Amazing. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is part of the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge! Ever since I read it in high school, I’m hooked on this book. The first time I read it, I recognised the duality: one the one hand, trying to look and act older than your age; …
The next book on the list of the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: 1984 by George Orwell. Even though this book was written in the first half of the previous century, some of the aspects are still relevant, which surprised me a lot. At first I was afraid that it would be like Dr. Jekyll and …
This one’s a classic. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson has become the metaphor of having two sides: good and evil. Even before reading it, I knew how the story went. Jekyll and Hyde appear in different kinds of media: movies, books, and even music, not to mention the more than one hundred movie adaptations of …
When packing my suitcase for Marrakech, I was wondering how many books I should bring. I was reading The Canterbury Tales and Glass Sword at the time, but I thought I should bring one more just to be safe. Looking at the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, I picked The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It has been on my want-to-read …
During English literature in high school, we had to read The Wife of Bath from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. I loved that story and wanted to read more tales! Two years ago, I finally got myself a copy of the book, but didn’t start reading because of, well, a lot of other books. …
Fans of the tv-show Gilmore Girls know this already: daughter Rory reads a lot. Actually, during the series she reads or mentions reading 339 books. Not counting the books from Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, or books that Lorelai reads or mentions. Australian writer Patrick Lenton made a list of these books, and that resulted in …