Het boek "Ik ga leven" van Lale Gül is geen slecht debuut. Het boek bevestigt veel van mijn denkbeelden. Dat vind ik jammer. Ongelijk hebben zou in dit geval beter zijn. Lale heeft een wonderlijke schrijfstijl. Lijkt me niet alleen te komen door Nederlands als tweede taal. Ik weet waar...
This book is an interesting read. Stephanie Kelton clearly has a point to make in The Deficit Myth; Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy. Kelton gets a tad repetitive at times. But she has managed to make sure I never think about government budgets again...
The Nix by Nathan Hill is not as "unputdownable" as I would have liked. The endless and indepth sidetracking put me off many times as I was just getting into the story or one of the many stories making up the main story.
So it took me a while to...
The Philosophy Book is a very cool book. I skipped some chapters that were of less personal interest/relevance to me and this is -in my opinion- not a book to be read from cover to cover. But it very concisely introduces some philosophers and philosophical concepts and puts them...
So I have made a few comments on Twitter about the George Floyd incident. This morning while reading the newspaper I needed to say more and started off writing. Admittedly, it has become a bit of a rant. But then again a rant feels like pretty much the only...
Do you remember when you were small? How uncles and aunties would pinch your cheek and say how much you'd grown and how time went by so fast? I always found it really stupid. In my experience time really didn't go that fast. And what with the cheek pinching...
Yes here's an international section of zinvollerleven, aimed towards the international visitors of this website. As you will have noticed, most of the website is in Dutch and that will still be main part of the website. But over time we have noticed more and more international visitors on...
