31.1.10

re-cover nr.88

Hymnen an die Nacht - Novalis

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.
Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a German author and philosopher.

Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night, in English) was first published in 1800.

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

23.1.10

re-cover nr.87

Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Tracy Chevalier is an American writer.
Girl With a Pearl Earring was first published in 1999.

Girl With a Pearl Earring was adapted into a film in 2003.

Girl With a Pearl Earring is a painting by Johannes Vermeer.

22.1.10

re-cover nr.86

The Hours - Michael Cunningham

These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Michael Cunningham is an American writer. The Hours was first published in 1998.

The Hours was adapted to cinema in 2002.

"If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."

8.1.10

re-cover nr.85

Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami

This picture was taken in the Whole Foods Market, New York, 2009.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer.Sputnik Sweetheart (Spūtoniku no koibito, in Japanese) was first published in 1999.


"and it came to me then
that we were wonderful travelling companions
but in the end, we were no more but lonely lumps of metal in their own separate
orbits

from far off, they looked like beautiful shooting stars
when the orbits that these two satellite of ours, happened to cross paths, we could
be together
maybe even open our hearts to each other
but that was only for the briefest moment
the next instant, we would be in absolute solitude
until we'd burn up and became nothing"

1.1.10

re-cover nr.84

A Better World for Our Children - Dr. Benjamin M. Spock

These pictures were taken in the London outskirts, in 2009.
Dr. Benjamin M. Spock was an American pediatrician.
A Better World for Our Children was first published in 1994.


"I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies."