Writings

April is quickly coming to an end and… what a month it was! From Portugal to London, from thesis progress to assisting in classes, from movies to musicals, April was a packed month!

This is going to be a relatively short post, even though many things happened last month. The first three months of 2022 are completed and there’s now only 9 to go. That’s quite scary. Time flies!

Since I created this website’s colophon (also known as meta page), I’ve wanted to also created a page that show cased how this website evolved over the years. I created this website when I was 14, in 2014. At first, it was just a bunch of HTML pages written by hand. Within the first year, the website moved from pure HTML to WordPress and then to Hugo.

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.

It is the end of February and it is unbelievable. It feels like 2022 started yesterday, yet here we are: in the end of one more month. I feel like I say this every month though.

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.

“The Midnight Library” portrays a character, Nora, that after dying at exactly midnight, got transported to a library where time doesn’t change. In this library, Nora has the opportunity to try all the different lives she would have had if she had made different decisions. To keep the level of spoilers to a minimum, I will not go over a lot more.

Read the first story of this book, “Nightfall”, which portrays a dystopian and apocalyptic future. It narrates a story where the sun is going to disappear forever and everyone will be in eternal darkness. And what can that cause in people?

It is unbelievable that 1/12 of the year has already gone by. I came back to the Netherlands in the beginning of the month and I’ve been able to achieve quite a few things last month.

Just finished reading the romance “Red, White and Royal Blue” from Casey McQuiston. In this book, Casey creates an hypothetical situation where the First Son of the US and the Prince of the UK would fall in love with each other, as well as the political and diplomatic outcomes from that.

Just finished reading “Before the coffee gets cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It is, yet again, a book that falls into the magical realism domain. In this book, the story takes place in a little café in Tokyo. In this café, there is a special seat where people can seat and travel in time.

Lately, I have been reading a bit more. Therefore, I wanted to be able to post more about it and track the progress. This is something I used to do before with Goodreads, but I have since stopped using it. The logical solution? Implement more features on my website. Why not?