What a hectic couple of months!! I’m still in the middle of it!!

What with all the exams and assignments and tour planning and birthday planning, I’m sooooooo exhausted. My birthday is this week. In a few weeks, my friend and I give a shared bday party – pirate theme!!

For the first time this night, I walked back home alone all the way from the Centrum and did NOT feel scared. I loved the cool breeze and the whispering trees. It took me back to my Magic Faraway Tree and my school summer holidays. What a beautiful beautiful night. The moon was just a sliver of silver, the pools and waterways were gleaming and tiny little ducks swimming everywhere. The TU way was deserted but it really wasn’t scary. 

I found the sweetest bookshop in Den Haag ever!! Anyway, I spent hours and hours there this morning. Browsing, drinking off. Nice day off. I’ve made my wish list of books for this year! (It’s something I do everytime I grow one year older) So here goes.

1. Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh

2. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

3. A pale view of the Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

4. The Volumptious Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam – Lauren Liebenberg

5. Naguib Mahfouz’s Trilogy.

6. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman – Haruki Murakami

7. Snow – Orhan Pamuk

8. Other Colours – Orhan Pamuk

9. And as usual, my list ends with the book I wish for year after year. When I was a kid, I had this book called the Hollow Tree House by Enid Blyton. It’s now out of publication. Mom lent it to someone who never returned the book and now, I’ve found my copy of the book on Amazon. It’s selling for 159 euro today. Aaaaaaaaaarggghhhhh!!!!! I love my book! I want it back! Please Mr.Whoever-owns-it-now, can I please have my book back? I can’t even get a new edition anymore! 

Book lovers, unite. I’ve been dying to find a book on Book Crossing and I can’t seem to cross a single book. Is it just me or do you see that happening to you too?