1) I will buy something. 2) On a day like yesterday I will also complain about stupid women who are surprised when told by a not-so-stupid bookseller that Langenscheidt indeed has several packages containing CDs for Portuguese. It’s Langenscheidt! That’s like the #1-publishing house for languages. Get with the program, lady! And yes, there IS […]

Do you remember my weekly freezer column? Yeah, I didn’t think so. As I predicted it was probably the ultimate doomed-to-fail column of all time. I’m still thinking about it every time I open my freezer, so in my heart it’s still life. Whatever. I got myself a copy of Judith Hermann’s ‚Sommerhaus, später‘ yesterday. […]

Are we the only people in this world who own things? It’s like every time I am at somebody’s place for the first time I get the feeling that we must be very strange people because we actually have things at home. Like books. Or CDs. Or, you know, movies on video or DVD. A […]

Here’s something I wrote yesterday but the internet connection was a mess and so I wasn’t able to post it. It’s really late, but I’m going to at least write a short post about what happened today. As I said we went to Cologne where we first spent some time at a bookstore. I have […]

I learned today that you should not read the last 80 pages of ‚The Time Traveler’s Wife‘ on the train. I spent about one hour trying to hold back my tears as best as I could, still I couldn’t prevent my eyes getting watery. I didn’t cry though. At least not while I was on […]

Warning: Short post. I’m really tired, but there will be more today when I feel a little more relaxed and motivated. I just thought that once my finals are over (at least the written part) I will reward myself for that – even if I screw up, at least I did it and it will […]