Recent Book Activity

I'm currently not in the mood to read, because I'm the middle of a divorce. I do owe a lot of people books, but please, be assured that I will send books on as soon as I'm able to and in the mood. You can also always PM me to ask. BC is currently just not my state of mind.


My name's dutch-book, 23 years old and living together with husband and daughter in Weesp (nearby Amsterdam.)
My daughter, Laura, was born the 16th of May 2009. I hope she also will inherit my love for reading.
I love reading, watching television and movies, listening to music, Postcrossing, bookcrossing, the colour yellow, flowers, shopping for my daughter and me, skirts, dresses, SuperMario, cooking (if I succeed), the sound of rain, being in my warm house when it rains very hard, candles, getting mail, filled bookcases, bookrings, my daughter (especially when she smiles or screams for fun), a nice and clean house, the sound of my vacuum cleaner when it absorbs dirt, a certain painting by van Gogh. I also like to travel a lot, visit museums, but unfortunately my husband doesn't. Once I hope to go to university and study Criminology and/or Literature. I'd like to become a midwife, an assistant midwife, a criminologist or someone in a literary profession. I'm fascinated by dead people and how they died, what they look like etc.
My bookish dream is to have an own library, with an open fireplace, a cozy chair, some hot cocoa and me snuggling in that chair before that fireplace with a cup of hot cocoa in one hand and a book in the other, and surrounding me are thousands of books in their shelves, neatly stacked.
Every day I wait and wait and wait until it finally is time to run to the mailbox and get my mail. My day brightens whenever I discover a book or some postcards.

Happy BC-ing!

Dutch-book



Books read in 2012:

1- Go the f*ck to sleep - Adam Mansbach (bookring)
2- Story of the eye - Georges Bataille (bookring)
3- Queen of shadows - Edith Felber (bookring)
4- The 5th horseman - James Patterson (bookring)
5- Whispers and lies - Joy Fielding (BC)
6- On chesil beach - Ian McEwan (BC)
7- Momo - Michael Ende (bookring)
8- The black dahlia - James Ellroy (BC)
9- Grafteken - Arnaldur Indridason (bookring)
10- Ekaterinburg - Helen Rappaport (BC)
11- A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers - Xiaolu Guo (bookring)
12- The time traveler's wife - Audrey Niffenegger (bookring)
13- De helaasheid der dingen - Dimitri Verhulst (BC)
14- Bunny Drop 4 - Yumi Unita (bookring)
15- The pillars of the earth - Ken Follett (own book)
16- Sex with kings - Eleanor Herman (BC)
17- Stasiland - Anna Funder (bookring)
18- House rules - Jodi Picoult (own book)
19- The man in the picture - Susan Hill (bookring)
20- Anansi boys - Neil Gaiman (bookring)
21- Blue diary - Alice Hoffman (BC)
22- Deja dead - Kathy Reichs (BC)
23- The other queen - Philippa Gregory (BC)
24- Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children - Ransom Riggs (BC)
25- To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee (BC)
26- The help - Kathryn Stockett (bookring)
27- The Kurosagi corpse delivery service - Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki (bookring)
28- Niemandskinderen - Carolien Roodvoets (bookring)
29- Captain Corelli's mandolin - Louis de Bernieres (bookring)