A friend gave me that book for my birthday. It had a dragon on it. Well, I read a lot of dragon stories in my life and expected some other random cliché packed fanatsy novel. But oh, it actually was different!
The Temeraire-Series of Novik includes five books so far, it plays in the napoleonic times, [...]
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My Heart To… Naomi Novik
Posted in My Heart To... on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Heart To Rembrandt van Rijn
Posted in My Heart To... on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t really have to explain who Rembrandt was but for the people asking: Rembrandt was probably the most important dutch painter of the 17th century. I love him for his portraits who are different from any other painter of his time. He was able to catch someones personality, especially in his later years. My [...]
My Heart To Siegfried Sassoon
Posted in My Heart To... on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Siegfried Sassoon was a poet and author and was born and died in England around the time of WWI. My absolutely favorite poem of him is my today dedication, read away.
Suicide in the Trenches
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In [...]
