Purchases

Music:

• Simeon ten Holt, Canto Ostinato;


• Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt Suites 1&2 - Fra Holbergs tid - Sigurd Jorsalfar;


• Fixkes, Fixkes.

Books:

• Simon Vestdijk, Ierse nachten;


• Luc Devoldere et al. (eds)., Overeind in Babel: talen in Europa.


• Floris Cohen, De herschepping van de wereld: het onstaan van de moderne natuurwetenschap verklaard.

On the list, but as yet unbought because buying English-language books in the Netherlands is stupid as they are cheaper in Scotland anyway, especially with the pound doing so poorly against the euro currently...

• Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature;


• Alexander McCall Smith, The careful use of compliments.

More bookblog impending, by the way, as soon as I finish the book...