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june 25

june 25

At the blog of a col­league I saw she “wiki-ed” her birth­day.
Cool idea, so I had to copy her, sorry Sophie; it was com­pletely your idea.

Here are some lit­er­ary con­nec­tions to my birthday:

events:
1947 – The Diary of Anne Frank is pub­lished.
2009 — Cana­dian author Alice Munro col­lects the third Man Booker Inter­na­tional Prize at a cer­e­mony at Trin­ity Col­lege Dublin.

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August 25, 2009 – 23:06 | by eb | posted in fun | tagged , , , | 33 views comments (3)

literary nut or not?

Take the quiz and find out:

Pop­u­lar­ity: unranked [?]

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August 25, 2009 – 15:53 | by eb | posted in fun | tagged , | 34 views comments (5)

old fashioned library

My boyfriend and I went on vaca­tion to Turkey. Happy times all around!
At the end of the first week we felt fit enough to see some cul­ture and we went to Eph­esus, an old city once flour­ish­ing. A lot of build­ings are still there in good con­di­tions and this is one of them:

It is the library of Cel­cus from the sec­ond cen­tury AD. Of course no more books were found in it, but the build­ing itself, although no longer com­plete, is impres­sive enough. Just imag­ine roam­ing through books in this place. Makes you won­der why we don’t build like this any­more. Here are some pic­tures of the beau­ti­ful details:

this is a pre­view of old fash­ioned library. read the full post (158 words & 4 images, esti­mated 38 secs read­ing time)
October 10, 2008 – 12:00 | by eb | posted in book talk, fun | tagged , , | 24 views comments (0)

i am…

There are a lot of Jane Austen fans out there, me included. I laughed together with Eliz­a­beth Ben­net (Pride and prej­u­dice), cried with Eli­nor Dash­wood (Sense and sen­si­bil­ity), was naive as Fanny Price (Mans­field Park) and caught up in the many plans of Emma (Emma).
And I won­dered. I won­dered what I, as me, would do in the sit­u­a­tions all these hero­ins had to go through. I won­dered which char­ac­ter I would resem­ble most. So I took a quiz, and here is the result:

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April 8, 2008 – 22:32 | by eb | posted in fun | tagged | 148 views comments (0)