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What one sees

groeiboom

Just finished reading the latest novel of Ian McEwan, Lessons  (2022), I’m a fan of McEwan, since reading ten years ago Saturday and Atonement and some other of his novels.  I also discovered rather late that I’m also a fan of David Mitchell, after reading…

Sal Bomela

The first decade of my life I grew up in Zaltbommel, originally probably a settlement of the army of the Roman Empire in their network of military settlements and fortifications, along the Limes, the Boundary with northern and eastern parts of…

A summer episode

The year was 1950, I was 5 years old, my sister Hannie only 2, and my mother was still young, 27.  The summer was hot and the three of us went to the tiny strip of beach near one of…