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yeah, that sounds a lot better in Japanese….I no naka no kawazu taikai o shirazu. I remember when I first learned the proverb from one of my students the first time I was in Japan, but I forgot about it until I read it this morning in The Blue-Eyed Salaryman. Cover included because I can’t [...]

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So I’m not totally crazy in that I wouldn’t love to live within spitting distance of work and school, however commuting by bus/train has its benefits. Namely I have my reading time back, something rarely seen last year. Today I read 106 pages between the morning and the evening commutes and loved it. Much like [...]

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I realised after seeing it on another blog that I hadn’t updated my countries since June. Have remedied that: create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands I also came to realise just how odd that sounds. New countries since June. Adding New Zealand is a bit of a technicality but no worse [...]

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Last Sunday I was halfway through the book but as happens most weeks, especially this one when I had to go down to NYU x4, there was no time for reading. As a result, I finished the book this afternoon at the gym. It was definitely a journal as I went type of book because [...]

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via West of Mars, I found out about Kailana’s Ten Books you Cannot Live Without… Now I learnt back when I used to play the Relays that I had some weird tastes in books, so I’m not expecting this to be anything different… 1. Take Me With You – Brad Newsham – I love the [...]

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Finally finished the write-up on Flight of the Goose for Front Street last night. I have to say I’m grateful to have found the site via BookCrossing and BookRelay because it has introduced me to a number of authors and genres who I might not otherwise have considered. Since starting with FSR last Summer, I’ve [...]

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