Deconstructing a novel
Digging beneath the surface of a novel is like taking a look behind the curtain. It requires a lot of extra reading, deep thinking, eye-opening, underlining, highlighting… An invaluable experience…
Haruki Murakami and Fazil Say: Perspectives from the classroom
What I like about Murakami’s “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgirmage” is that the text is so “spacious” and “embracing”: You can add more characters into the story…
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Lecture
“My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs” I’ve just finished reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Lecture published by Yapi Kredi Yayinlari in Turkey. ”Good writing and good reading will break…
Hear the Wind Sing
If we own things, we’re terrified we’ll lose them; if we’ve got nothing we worry it’ll be that way forever. We’re all the same… Haruki Murakami “Hear The Wind Sing”
Monk and Murakami
Born October 10 1917 Thelonious Monk, “American pianist and composer who was among the first creators of modern jazz” (Britannica). One of his best-known works is “Round Midnight.” This wonderful…
The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
“The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan”. A new book by Bülent Dikmen, Graeme Gilloch and Craig Hammond. The authors “critically examine Ceylan’s films and identify the key themes that run…
Türk Klasikleri Serisi
[Turkish/English] Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları’ndan Türk Edebiyatı Klasikleri Serisi. Nisan 2018 tarihli serinin ilk iki kitabında Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (1864-1944) var: Kuyrukluyıldız Altında Bir İzdivaç ve Mürebbiye. ‘Günümüz Türkçesiyle’..…
Istanbul’s Tulips
“Tulips were introduced to the Western world by the Viennese ambassador to Turkey, Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, who wrote of seeing the plants in Edirne, Turkey, in 1551 and who…
The Little Mermaid
“Mermaids have no tears and so they suffer all the more” (Andersen’s Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid) 🌊 VisitCopenhagen: “The sculpture was inspired by ballerina Ellen Price, who in 1909…
About Denmark
2025: Year by which Copenhagen hopes to be the world’s first carbon-neutral capital. 🦋 406: Number of Danish islands 🌱 7314: Kilometers of Danish coastline 🚴 36%: Percentage of Copenhageners…
Bikes in Denmark
Official Bicycle of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Copenhagen :)) The 2017 Annual Bicycle Report: “41 % of all trips to work and study to/from Copenhagen is by bike…
Running in Denmark
“LøbeMagasinet” is a monthly magazine for runners in Denmark. The July 2017 issue is the 96th issue of “LøbeMagasinet”. When I flipped through the magazine, I found out that there…
