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NaNoWriMo 2012

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

So here I am six days into my very first novel with NaNoWriMo 2012. It’s exciting, it’s weird, it’s like nothing I’ve done before. I am writing but I’m also wondering why the hell I decided to do this.
Why did I decide to do this in the first place? I have known about NaNoWriMo for [...]

The Picture of Dorian Gray 2011/2

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Lord Henry Wooten has so many epigrams that one could quote almost the whole book. I would say that this book is worth reading simply from this standpoint let alone the story which is itself gripping from beginning to end. This has been on my list of books that I would read someday and I’m [...]

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2011/1

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

The thing that confounded me most were the various currencies – florins, friedrichs d’or, louis d’or, thalers and gulden. Roubles and Francs of course were familiar to me.