Dit boek is zo leuk! Ik ben geen Japanner, maar ik zie mezelf in haar verhaal als buitenlander.

Niet alleen buiten was het donker, maar tot mijn verrassing ook in de gebouwen. In woonhuizen. in cafés. in musea en restaurants: over- al was het donker. Het was bedoeld om sfeer te creëren. maar mijn ogen waren gewend aan het felle licht van Spanje, en ik kon nauwelijks zien wat er op mijn bord geserveerd werd....

I just realized that when I have long periods of not reading, it is because I am forcing myself to read books I am not enjoying. So I procrastinate. Just abandoned 2. Time to pick another!Thank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

I just finished my first japanese book after 7 months — I think — and started a new one! The kobo helps a lot. But about 75% , I was able rely less and less on the dictionary!!! That being said... starting a new book means using it again, A LOT. But I wonder if I'll be able to do the same! So far, I am understanding...

5 pages, 48 words in deck 😅

I barely have time to sit by the computer, work has picked up and I love it. But it means less time to play. However... I'm ITCHING to redesignthe layout — not the style — of the website to look like my old blogs with the 2 or 3 columns. 😅 #website Thank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

Everytime I believe I'm understanding, something happens and I realize I have no idea what is going on. Right now it's starting to feel like a paint of insanity note than a story.

Going on semi-hiatus Focus of November 2025: 📚 catalog my personal book collection 🏯 Study more Japanese actively and finish reading my first book. 🙅🏻‍♀️ DEC will be out of the window due to how busy it is since my kid also decided to be born around Christmas. So I will probably MIA until January. Probably NOV also...

My daughter is in her Frozen period, and she is obsessed with "Do you want to be a snowman" song. I keep telling her not to put it on... (she can use spotify) because I keep crying at the thought of a child growing up all by herself missing her best friend all her life and the loneliness she must feel. No child...

Het lichtend schermpje van de mobiel belooft de kortste weg. Neem die niet! Weersta de verleiding van de kortste weg. Anders heb je voor je het weet je doel bereikt. En daar sta je dan, spijtig om alles waaraan je bent voorbijgegaan. Neem liever de eerste afslag die je ziet. En daar weer een zijpad van. En dan even...

Whenever I see passages in Sonia's writing, I can't help but wonder if the writer wrote from own experience.

Oh, how could he have forgotten that love, when it arrives, arrives always twinned to its destructive force, as inevitably as God and devil, life and death, home and the leaving of it; that information collected during sweeter moments will be turned to ammunition and dispelled during war; that what is innocent in...