Got about 100 pages in. Grew tired of the extras that were making the book 'cute.' Did not finish It's a shame. The translation is a little bit more clumsy than the smoothness of Smilla's.
Combinatie van een spannend verhaal en een sprookje, zo komt dit boek op mij over. Dat komt vooral door de namen van de personen, de onvoorstelbare avonturen en het happy end. Peter en Tilde, 14 en 16 jaar, hebben nog een oudere broer Hans. Hun vader is de pastor van de gemeennte en hun moeder be...
You may be familiar with that seminal work of English literature, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. This proceeds on the assumption that any work of literature can be improved by adding zombies. I wonder if something similar could be done with Peter Hoeg's ...
When you have children, you find out that you have so much to learn. Not all of it makes sense at first. One of the things I’ve had to learn, was how to praise my child. That if your child has climbed high up on top of something and she says ‘look at me’, you’re not supposed to say ‘oh how good y...