No, I am not going insane. Although some of my friends may laugh at this statement. I’m just back into my audiobooks addiction. I am regularly drawn back to audiobooks, mostly for their practicality. I spend a lot of time reading for work, then sometimes I struggle to find energy left to read for pleasure [...]
I don’t like that. Actually, I don’t like reviews in general. I like comments from customers, readers or spectators. But critics reviews can fool you sometimes. Especially for books. You read this wonderful ramble on how fantastic this book is, magnifically written, sensational: “the new [random famous author]” and so on. Then you buy the [...]
There is no such thing as a bad day. Days can be more or less entertaining, productive, funny, boring, relaxed, hectic, rainy and so on. Never bad per se. Nerd trick to know if your heater is on: stick/pin a paper to the wall right above the heater. If the paper moves, hot air is [...]
These are two websites I visit to look for free audiobooks. OpenCulture.com LibriVox.org iTunes has quite some audiobooks for sale at reasonably fair prices and also some free podcasts. I am finding audiobooks interesting, One can also listen to plays. Pretty cool huh? I discovered audiobooks a few months ago, when I was looking for [...]
Some call it red tea, some rooibos. I think I just love it. I did have some about 4-5 years ago but it wasn’t common here in Italy and I couldn’t find it. My parents now live in London (g’bye Ecuador for now, but you truly never know with them) and sometimes they bring unusual [...]
Last week I was shopping and passed by the DVD dept. in a supermarket. I decided to have a look at the titles and to my surprise I found “The Shipping News”. I remember reading great reviews on the film. I even remember that during one of my flights to the US, walking up & [...]
I can’t believe I lost my little book of poems. Okay, I only had a dozen of poems there. I suppose this is not a big loss for the world of literates. I have no idea where that little book is. Hopefully still in some boxes in the attic, after my last moving. The thing [...]
