Reading...

Loving this...part narrated by a 15 year old Alma,  this is a story of lost love and the horrors of the holocaust but it is much more. I give it full marks. Nicole Krauss is married to Jonathan Safran Foer of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The couple live in Brooklyn and I have a crush on this very cool couple.

Are you a digital native or immigrant?

I see that Marc Prensky of Digital Native and Immigrant fame is coming to DCU in September.

Reading...

Winner of the IMPAC Award in 2009. Set in New York. Excellent.

Tile obsession continues...

via desire to inspire

...but this time inside. How long would it take to build up a collection like this?

Organised

via Freunde von Freunden

I find well organised shelving comforting. In foodie terms its the Sausage and Mash of Interiors. It calms me. If only I could catalogue and classify everything....

Give credit where credit is due

The print above created by Pia Jane Bijkerk and you can purchase via her website. I am so bad at giving credit where it's due. Mostly because I saved a picture on my hard drive and didn't reference properly. This is dealt with above - "so get a better filing system" . Oh the shame when a librarian is told to get a better filing system. I therefore pledge that I will credit absolutely everything I put on this blog from now on. Consider me told.

Shelving again...

via Decor 8

Cheap and doable