I’m stupid. No, really. And I don’t have nearly enough confidence in my beloved Cologne. So I read about this book shop in London, the one that specialises in cook books and has an actual kitchen, where they try out the recipes from the books they sell. Awesome. This shop alone seems like a good […]

Yes, that says it’s another nine months before the book’s actually released. I’d say that’s one heck of a pre-order there. But then again… I mean, we’re talking Clotilde’s first cook book here. How could I resist?

Recently I’ve gone a bit crazy over cook books and magazines. I even dragged the husband to Draguignan under false pretenses, so that I could find a bookstore and get my very own copy of „Cantines„, a French cook book featuring food served in French school cafeterias interpreted by chefs. I read about it on […]

For anyone who cares, these are the books that I’m taking to France: Jasper Fforde: The Well of Lost Plots & Something Rotten (Part III and IV of the Thursday Next Series) Christopher Paolini: Eldest Janet Evanovich: One For the Money Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in […]

I just started reading „The Princess Diaries“ on the bus today and I already know I’m going to love it. This is fun, quick, hilarious, just the kind of stuff I really really adore. So it’s very hard for me not to go to Amazon right now and just order all the other books of […]

You can vote for your favorite literary villain here. I’m surprised by how many of those books and stories I know, but I haven’t decided yet. It’s a tough choice. Though I don’t think that Captain Hook or The Grinch actually belong there. When I read Peter Pan I actually sympathized with Captain Hook a […]

I finished „The Amber Spyglass“ yesterday. For those of you who don’t know that book, it’s the third (and last) part of the „His Dark Materials“ series by Philip Pullman. And it’s a desaster. For one thing, if you asked me why it’s called „His Dark Materials“ I couldn’t possibly give you the answer. Because […]

I want to read 52 books this year. One for each week, as easy as that. If I counted right today I finished my 26th book. Considering that there’s still a bit left of the first half of the year I’d say that there’s a good chance I might accomplish my goal this year. Let’s […]

I don’t think it’s excusable that our local book store has not a single book by the wonderful and wonderfully messy-haired Neil Gaiman. At least I found none. And I’m good at finding books, believe me. I have like this inner book-store map, that enables me to find what I want in nearly every book […]

This is mostly for Caitlin, but I figured I’d share with anyone: I finished Persepolis 1. In French. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, but strange. Now I wonder where I can get the rest of the books. It took a long time till it got here. I think the store […]