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I promised to post this two weeks ago, but here it finally is, my very big and expensive looking "The Complete Sherlock Holmes Library Edition":

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Earlier this week I decided the finishing on the bookcase was dry and hardened and I went to my parents house to pick up my books and then put them in the bookcase:

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About 2/3 of these books is in English.

The books I use for university are on the shelve in our "work room" or "study". Also, one book would not fit in the bookcase... the one laying on it's side on top of the Sherlock Holmes box set (third shelve, from the bottom right): "The Complete Sherlock Holmes Library Collection", in English. It is a very pretty book, I'm make a blog post about it this weekend.

Some other books wouldn't fit in the bookcase either, but I anticipated that and didn't take them with me from my old room at my parents house. These were mostly books I loved when I was younger, but haven't looked at in years: a few atlases, books about astronomy and a book with aerial photo's of the city I grew up in.

After a bit of a slow reading-period (driving to work with my car every day..) the last few years, I've started reading again in september. After reading Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, Zodiac, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, a few years ago, I still had Interface, The Cobweb, In The Beginning... was the Command Line, The Big U and Anathem standing on my bookshelf. After finishing The Big U, I did some Googling to get more information on the book. I've read on Wikipedia that Neal Stephenson himself didn't like the book, but I didn't find it that bad... I've read much worse... Towards the end of the book, the story does get a little extreme, but it is really funny and you really want to know what happens... After The Big U I started in Anathem, it really is something different... I read it in two weeks, on the train to university (2 hours a day). One of the best things about this book is that you actually feel smarter after having read it. It's also cool to recognize concepts from real life in the story, it is really well written, but I can imagine some people will find it a bit long-winded. (I like very detailed stories...) I can't wait for his next book!

My girlfriend and I were shopping for a new printer today and I saw this box:

 

Only € 20,-!

Would look perfect in the new bookcase I'm building, and they are probably fun to read... (They are in Dutch, unfortunately... Maybe I'll find an English set someday...)

We still didn't buy a printer...