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Blogging Anniversary - 10 years

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A while ago I checked when I did my first blog post, in order to celebrate with an anniversary post. Well, that day came and went without any reaction from me. Better late than never, so here a reminder of my very first blog post from 24 October 2012.  The book was New Finnish Grammar  by Diego Marani. Marani is an Italian novelist, translator and newspaper columnist. While working as a translator for the European Union he invented a language ‘Europanto’ which is a mixture of languages and based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many EU languages. It was a suitable book to start with, being a book about letters, languages and memories. With a beautiful prose, the novel went directly to my heart.  "One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship, Pietri Friari gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can ide...
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Bookmark Monday

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This meme is hosted by Guiltless Reading . It is all about bookmarks. This week I have been visiting the Sherlock Holmes' shop in London. The queue to the house was too long though, so that is for another time. As usual in the museum shops in England, there are so many nice things to buy. One just have to try to limit oneself. I bought the usual bookmark and added a story of Sherlock Holmes' adventures. I have only read one book, A Study in Scarlet, and here I will find a few others. Beautiful cover for the book.
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Bookmark Monday

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This meme is hosted by Guiltless Reading and it is all about bookmarks. I have been travelling for about a month and this is always a good way to collect new, interesting bookmarks. I start this week with sharing two from the Fernandeum museum in Innsbruck, Austria. There was an exhibition with Lucas Cranach the Elder and his paintings of Saint Jerome in the Wilderness . Fantastic paintings and an interesting exhibition, comparing his paintings with real Nature. He paints very realistically, but adds a few odd bits and pieces. Just look at the birds at the pond. Another peculiar thing, but quite common at the times, is that Saint Jerome was in the desert, but the surroundings on the paintings are the alps. Nevertheless, it makes for beautiful paintings. And...another two bookmarks to my collection.
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Bookmark Monday

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Time for another Bookmark Monday , hosted by  Guiltless Reading . Last week I visited the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels. After having had a look at the old Masters, where Breughel, senior and junior, stands out, I once again had a look at the René Magritte collection. I did not like the surrealists from the beginning, but have noticed that the more I look at their work, the more I like it. After the tour I ended up in the museum and could have bought quite a few items there. I did limit myself though to a poster, some postcards and three bookmarks. The Masterpiece or the Mysteries of the Horizon (Private Collection) ,  The Castle in the Pyrenees (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)   and Oil on Canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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