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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • The Brothers Lionheart, by Astrid Lindgren is one of my childhood favourites. Originally Swedish but has been translated into English.

    The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt another childhood fav., it has been translated from Dutch. Actually, anything by Dragt I loved, but not sure which have translations or not.

    In terms of adult fiction, I was hooked on Stig Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series (he only wrote the first 3 though).

    Someone mentioned Kurt Vonnegut; I recommend the one I’ve read of his: Slaughterhouse 5.

    The Circle still gives me pause more than 5 years later. It’s by Dave Eggers.












  • 15yo me gets an angry phone call from the dad where I’d scored a weekly long-term babysitting gig after the first or second night: don’t think for a second that you’re coming back! (I’m paraphrasing here).

    I give a one-word reply and he hangs up.

    All I did was leave after getting paid without saying bye while they were checking on the kids. (They were asleep). Because I didn’t want to be coerced to get a ride like last time.

    Took me years to realise they were in the wrong.