10. Read five books. Can’t quite believe it, but I’ve managed to tear through two more books in the last month — Damals war es Friedrich and Half of a Yellow Sun — bringing me closer to my goal of five this year on my 33 Things list. After finishing Der Vorleser, I was determined …
10. Read five books. You might think that with all the complaining I’ve been doing about the test and the apartment search, I wouldn’t have any time to finish two books. Normally I would agree, except: I finished The World Without Us back in June before all the craziness really started, and I read Der …
When I picked up Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, I was expecting some sort of anthropological how-to manual on running. What I ended up with is a fascinating story of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, crazy ultra-marathoners, and the ultimate ultra-race between …
While I am a little fearful of doing injustice to writing as beautiful and imaginative as My Name is Red is by Orhan Pamuk, I have a painful pinched nerve in my neck and really shouldn’t be sitting in front of a computer at all, let alone spending forever trying to find the right words …