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The only explanation I can think of is that one simply does not seem to understand what reading comes down to. What it actually means to read, what reading really is.
In October 2015 I wrote a blogpost on my Dutch blog, called ‘Sharing is caring’ (I did use that English phrase for its title). It started with the way people on social media try to convey an experience with some form of art in a way that makes them connect with their followers, or mutuals,…
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This shifting towards each other was not at all like real, exciting, genuine attraction. On ‘The Rosie Project’
I picked out The Rosie project from the minibieb. The Dutch minibieb (‘little library’) is a relatively new phenomenon you might know, from somewhere in your own country; the tiny wooden homemade cabinets standing in residential areas, with books in them. The idea is to freely take or leave them. I took that one, anyway,…
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He does not pretend to be a good person. On ‘Treasure Island’
Agatha Christie must have liked Robert Louis Stevenson’s books very much. I read about them constantly in hers, and in that context he seemed some sort of mystery person – a name, on a book, that would jump out at me. Should Tommy or Tuppence or The-Colonel-when-he-was-still-a-boy or the young son of the flamboyant new…
