More books

I had decided that I wouldn't buy any new books for a while and just go to the library or read some of my unread books, but I was looking around in a bookstore and my mom found me with a book about world mythology in my hand. She offered to buy it for me. When someone does that there is no way I can say no. (And technically it wasn't even against my own rules, I never anticipated anyone else buying a book for me.)

I also got four books at the library. An omnibus of If I stay and Where she went by Gayle Forman, The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
I have been quite curious about The Casual Vacancy for a while now. I loved the Harry Potter series, but I found the summary of this books sound a little bit boring. Everytime I saw it in the bookstore I wasn't sure whether or not to buy it, but when I saw it at the library I realised that I could borrow it first and I could always buy it later if I really liked it.

Have you read The Casual Vacancy? What did you think of it?

Music Monday #30

I just discovered a new band, The Head and The Heart, and I love their music!

The Head and The Heart - Josh McBride



The Head and The Heart - Down in the Valley



I've been playing the last song over and over again for the last couple of hours. What is your favorite song at the moment?

Trip to the observatory

Because of the Weekend of Science Suzan and I went to an observatory. There were a lot of model rockets to be seen and some of them were launched. It was so much fun! We were able to look at the sun through a telescope with special filter and we also listened to a lecture about The wonders of the universe.

Some old parts of real rockets were shown.

Model rockets were launched.

Weekend of Science

This weekend it is the Weekend of Science in the Netherlands. Today Suzan and I went on a guided tour in the laboratory of Qlip, where the quality and components of milk are tested. I had never really been in a real laboratory so it was fun to be able see what it looked like in real life. It also brought back some memories of our high school chemistry classes of the burning marks on our lab coats and funny smells.

Source: http://www.hetweekendvandewetenschap.nl/evenenement/open-dag-bij-zuivellaboratorium-van-qlip-dag-van-de-chemie/

Source: http://www.hetweekendvandewetenschap.nl/evenenement/open-dag-bij-zuivellaboratorium-van-qlip-dag-van-de-chemie/

Tomorrow we are going to an open day at an observatory where a few lectures will be held and we can watch through a solar telescope.

Unread book stack

It is unbelievable how much time I spent on finding new books to read. I browse Goodreads, online shops, local bookstores and thrift stores. Today I ordered a new book online eventhough I know I already have a huge pile of to-be-read books. The picture does not even show all of them. Most of them I bought or got ages ago. I just love that feeling of always having something to read. Some days I'm into fantasy, others I want to read in a foreign language, read non-fiction or an historical romance. Those books may sit on my shelf for ages, and then, the moment is finally right to read them.

Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear, The Girl Who Played with Fire and Eldest by Christopher Paolini are all sequels to books I read quite a while ago and all really loved. I have started to read in The Children of Húrin and The bookthief a very long time ago, but because I was so bussy with school I quit. I really do want to read them though, so they might be some of the first books to be read. People of the Pharaos by Hilary Wilson is a non fiction book that I just need to be in the right mood for to be able to really enjoy. Ingen sommar utan dig (It's not summer without you) and Genom dina ögon (The host) are both books in Swedish. I bought them last year while I was in Sweden along with Hungerspelen (The Hunger games). I was only planning on buying one swedish book to practice reading in Swedish, but they had had a three for the price of two deal that I could not resist, haha. No et moi (No and me) and Le Grand Meaulnes are both French books. I made a bookreport about Le Grand Meaulnes for school once and I actually did start reading it, but I never finished it. It was not even a bad book and now that I own it I'll definitely be reading it some day. I'm currently reading A clash of Kings, the second book in the A song of Ice and Fire series, and A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons are the other sequels.

Are you like me and do you also have a big to-be-read pile? What book has been on your shelf forever?

Music Monday #29

Today I wanted to share some a cappella covers that I think are really good.

The Melodores - Radioactive by Imagine Dragons



Acquire - Sail by Awolnation

Cheese-curry cookies

I wanted to bake something, but we didn't have any eggs. I thought a while about what I could make and finally I settled on cheese-curry cookies. I love them and always eat way to many of them. They make for a great party snack.

Ingrediënts: (I got 1,5 baking sheet full of them)
100 gr flour
100 gr butter
Pinch of salt
2 tsp curry
100 gr rasped aged cheese
100 gr rasped Parmesan cheese

Instructions:

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees C. Sift the flour in a bowl and add a little bit of salt, the curry and the cheese. Mix until everything is evenly spread. Add the butter and knead it through the rest of the mixture. First it will become crumbly, but later it will get a more dough-like consistency. Make flat rounds with a diameter of 5 cm and bake them in the oven for about 10 - 15 minutes.

Enjoy!