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Book # 22 in 2018: “The Pharaoh Key” by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

June 24th, 2018 | Africa, General, Indigenous Peoples, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Travel

I do like Gideon Crew–quite a bit more than Preston & Child’s better-known sleuth, Agent Pendergast, whom I find annoying in the southern, courtly, albino-pale, omniscient and omnipotent way. “The Pharaoh Key” (#5 in the Gideon Crew series)...
Book # 21 in 2018: “Making Sense” by David Crystal

Book # 21 in 2018: “Making Sense” by David Crystal

June 19th, 2018 | Education, General, literature and poetry

Books that explore language, grammar and writing are my guilty pleasure. I consider the injunctions presented as I am absorbed by the text, trying to figure out if the writers are following their own instructions. I also hope that I will learning something from them I...
Book # 20 in 2018: “Twilight of the Belle Epoque” by Mary McAuliffe

Book # 20 in 2018: “Twilight of the Belle Epoque” by Mary McAuliffe

May 29th, 2018 | Europe, General, literature and poetry, Memory, music, Politics, Popular Culture, Time Passes, transportation, Travel

According to the introduction, Mary McAuliffe produced “Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso,Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) as a sort of conclusion to...
Hyggelig 6: A Copenhagen Miscellany

Hyggelig 6: A Copenhagen Miscellany

May 26th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, General, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Travel

Note to self: if there is the chance to drop off luggage before the room has been prepared, drop off everything except for telephone, wallet, camera and guidebook. As we waved hej-hej (that’s “bye-bye”) to Lars the landlord and strolled into town, I realized that my...
Book # 19 in 2018: “Midnight At The Bright Ideas Bookstore” by Matthew Sullivan

Book # 19 in 2018: “Midnight At The Bright Ideas Bookstore” by Matthew Sullivan

May 20th, 2018 | Family, Friends, General, literature and poetry, Popular Culture

The Bright Ideas Bookstore is named for the former lightbulb factory in a slowly gentrifying section of Denver, Colorado, its founders have transformed into a sort of bibliophile’s fortress. It provides a quiet and contemplative environment for its patrons, rather...

Hyggelig 3: From Counterculture Colors to the Black Diamond

May 11th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, General, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Society at Large, Travel

Christianshavn is a relic of 17th-century development. Thus its shape is that of a segment of a circle with the København Havn (the redundant “Merchants Harbor Port”) representing the chord and Stadsgraven Canal forming the arc.  Originally a moat protecting the...
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