Tag: Book Reviews

Het wantrouwen in de politiek neemt toe, terwijl politiek een onderwerp blijft waarover veel mensen niet willen praten. Toen ik Waarom We Politiek Niet Alleen Aan Politici Kunnen Overlaten bij de boekenwinkel heb gezien, dacht ik: “oh, dat klinkt interessant”.

Nos últimos meses, tenho tido um maior interesse na língua, quer seja ela a Língua Holandesa, a Língua Inglesa, ou a Língua Portuguesa. Já há tempos que sigo Marco Neves no Instagram, e os seus vídeos trazem sempre múltiplos fun facts sobre origens, mitos e outras pequenas coisas. Quando vi que tinha escrito este livro, pensei: tenho que o ler.

After seeing the book Surrounded by Idiots virtually everywhere, I decided to check some reviews and what it was actually about: communication, and “how to understand those who cannot be understood” - the quote on quote “idiots”. The topic sounded interesting, so I decided to pick up this book and read it.

Taal Is Zeg Maar Echt Mijn Ding is mijn eerste boek van Paulien Cornelisse. Het is eigenlijk het eerste “volwassene” Nederlands boek dat ik lees, laten we het zo zeggen. Het gaat over taal en dingen die mensen zeggen, niet per se expres, maar dingen die gewoon voorkomen.

The Ministry of Time is the debut novel from Kaliane Bradley. It is set in a world where the British ministry has started a new initiative to gather “expats” from different points in history in order to understand if time travel is feasible.

This was the first book I read by Susanna Clarke. I heard about it at a friend’s birthday party, after someone gifted this book to the birthday person. After seeing how gorgeous the cover was, and hearing a little bit about the story, I decided to buy it!

Yesterday, I finished reading Ikigai, a book by Héctor Garcia and Francesc Miralles, which dives into the Japanese concept of the same name, Ikigai (生き甲斐). The reasons for buying this book months ago were not exactly because I wanted to read it, but just because it looked and felt nice. But now that I have read it, I think it was a good purchase.

This is an unusual post: today I did not finish a book, but I decided to consciously stop reading it. And yet, I give it a 3 stars out of 5, which, for me, doesn’t mean it’s bad. It means it is good, but it is still lacking something for me.

Last night I thought: tomorrow morning I will finish reading The Creative Programmer, and so I did. I woke up this morning, had a light breakfast, made a coffee, and sat down in the balcony reading the last pages of Wouter’s book.

A few days ago I started reading this book by Erin Meyer, The Culture Map. And, today, I finished it. Considering I don’t read many non-fiction books, I was quite surprised to see how much this book captivated my attention.

I started reading this book in June and, even though I was enjoying it, life happened and I started reading very infrequently. I feel like this is a cycle that happens every year: in the beginning of the year I read a lot, during winter, and spring. Then summer comes and I stop reading.

This is the sequel of Before the coffee gets cold and I enjoyed it just as much. I keep the same rating I gave to the first book. It was just as good, a perfect continuation of the first book. Deeply magical and sentimental.

When I bought this book, I didn’t notice it had “other stories” in the title. Not only does the book contain 7 other stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, but it also includes biographical and bibliographical information about the author.

This book was quite interesting. Similarly to the books I’ve been reading recently, there’s a magical element that makes this book be completely different from what I expected. In a nutshell, there’s a man called Wallace that is definitely not a good person. One day, he dies. However, the story tells us what happens after he dies. Of course, I don’t want to write spoilers.

This book is about two characters, Red and Blue, that stand on enemy sides of a time war. In this war, these two enemies end up falling in love until some one’s boss discovers this “affair”. I gave this book a 3 out of 5, not because the story is bad, but because it didn’t resonate with me. In addition, the first tens of pages can be quite slow and hard to understand. I recommend the book for those who enjoy both science fiction and romance though.