Suffering from Sunday Evening Blues?
Are you at home right now with nothing more meaningful to do than reading your emails?
Let our Library enchant your cold evenings!Book Addiction
Addicted to a book and want more of it? Then why not read the background literature?
For example, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and the book Holy Blood And Holy Grail by Richard Leigh, Michael Baigent and Henry Lincoln it was based on. Dan Brown used many theories from the Holy Blood book and was sued by its authors on the grounds of plagiarism. Were you fascinated by the Da Vinci revelations? Were you outraged? Is all of Christianity one big conspiracy? Or was Dan Brown simply using populist half-facts to excite the uninformed and unwashed? Find out more in our library!
Discover the Treasure
Here's what I found in our Library I'm sure you have never heard of before.
Longing by J.D.Landis.
Against a backcloth of early 19th century Europe in cultural and political turmoil, this vivid account of the love of composer Robert Schumann for pianist Clara Wieck unfolds. Drawing on his protagonists' letters and journals, JD Landis spins a compelling tale of Robert and Clara's passion, enforced separation, marriage and the eventual love triangle created by the devotion to Clara of Schumann's pupil Johannes Brahms. With a supporting cast that includes Chopin, Liszt, Goethe, Mendelssohn, Jenny Lind, Pauline Viardot, Paganini and Hans Christian Andersen, he builds a rich narrative of musical genius, desire, obsession and madness.
I leave you with a quote by Umm Khaltum, the great Arab singer, from her famous song Al Atlal (The Ruins)
Umm Kalthoum - The Ruins
We were drunk with love
We sheltered ourselves in dreams
We walked down a moonlit road
Ah, we walked down a moonlit road
Joy danced ahead of us
We laughed like two children
And we outran our own shadows
[...]
Had love seen two as intoxicated as us?
So much hope we had built up around us
And we walked in the moonlit path, joy skipping along ahead of us
And we laughed like two children together
And we ran and outraced our shadows
As euphoria surrounded us
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