bookreview: the king's spy

hello bloggers,

I finished reading my first book of the historical reading challenge. Here is my review:

The king’s spy from Thomas Hill  

Summer, 1643

England is at war with itself. King Charles I has fled London, his negotiations with Parliament in tatters. The country is consumed by bloodshed.

For Thomas Hill, a man of letters quietly running a bookshop in the rural town of Romsey, knowledge of the war is limited to the rumors that reach the local inn.

When a stranger knocks on his door one night and informs him that the king's cryptographer has died, everything changes. Aware of Thomas's background as a mathematician and his expertise in codes and ciphers, the king has summoned him to his court in Oxford.

On arrival, Thomas soon discovers that nothing at court is straightforward. There is evidence of a traitor in their midst. Brutal murder follows brutal murder. And when a vital message encrypted with a notoriously unbreakable code is intercepted, he must decipher it to reveal the king's betrayer and prevent the violent death that failure will surely bring.

I liked the fact that they “try” to let you see how to break ciphers, but I didn’t really got into the story. I liked the book because I love to read historical books, but it didn’t get me as lots of other stories did. It’s a book I like to read once or twice.

Some of the occasions were predictable and therefore I missed the tension in the story that I had expected and that normally let me read a book until I have reached the last page.

Conclusion to this is that I liked to read the book and even will read the second one, but it didn’t really get me.

I'm really looking forward to the next book of the challenge that will be "the labirinth of osiris" written by Paul Sussman.

greets

2 updates van the simpsons swimming!!

pagina 4 af:

Goedemorgen medebloggers!!!

Hier eindelijk weer een blog update van mij. Ik heb het de afgelopen weken erg druk gehad met het afronden van mijn stage (verlengde stage door gezondheidsproblemen), maar nu kan ik eindelijk weer een update geven.

Goodmorning bloggors!!

Finally here is another update from my blog. Last weeks I was very bussy with the completion of my internship (I needed to be longer there because of health issues), but now I finally can update again :)

Ik heb hard doorgewerkt aan the simpsons swimming:

I worked very hard on the simpsons swimming:

pagina 4: 

gedeelte van pagina 5 &6:

Vandaag en morgen heb ik geen toegang tot het internet (afkickverschijnselen :P) dus kan ik veel borduren en .....


lezen in het boek van the king's spy die ik 2 weken geleden ontvangen heb :)

Today and tomorrow I don't have acces to the internet, so I can stitch a lot and.........


Read in the book the king's spy htat I got 2 weeks ago :)


doeidoei!!





hello bloggers!!

something is holding me from going further with the simpsons... I think I am missing the confetti, but after this page there will be some confetti ( I hope)

So I did a bookmark inbetween :)

It isn't finished yet, but it will be very soon :)

till soon!!

little helpers

hello bloggers!!

today I'm going to show you my 2 little helpers

what they love to do is jumping on and off the laptop... eating my threads and needles and asking for a cuddle evry time I move my hand :P

So now I'm off stitching again :)

finished page 4 from tranquility

hello bloggers!!

Today I finished page 4 from tranquility !!
I really love how it turned out .

first pic: how it is going to be in the future.

second pic: total picture

third pic: whole piece I have stitched until now

fourth pic: close up from the butterfly

fifth pic: close up from the hand

That was all for stitching today. Now I'm going to cook very fast and then I'm going to sleep.

finished projects

hello bloggers!!

Yesterday I forgot to mention the projects I already have finished.
So here they are:

Pile of yoshi's:

box with heart of my heart ( design from abi gurden):



saggitarius:

elephant:

I'm off stitching again!!! 

het begin

hoi allemaal!!

In deze blog ga ik het vooral over mijn hobby's hebben.
Op het moment borduur ik heel graag en lees ik graag.
Ik ben met meerdere projecten bezig bij het borduren:

Hello bloggers,

At this blog I'm going to write about my hobby's.
At the moment I really like to stitch and to read books.
I am stitching multiple projects:

• tranquility van the vintage angel (pattern made by heavenandearthdesigns.com)

zo moet het ooit worden:

• the simpsons swimming

• the great escape van Abi gurden:

Ook ga ik met lezen een nieuwe uitdaging aan namelijk the historical reading challenge.

Je moet hier 4 boeken uit een lijst kiezen, deze krijg je opgestuurd en daar schrijf je dan een review van. 

I also am going to participate in the historical reading challenge. At this challenge you have to chose 4 books from a list. The company sends yu one of the books, you write a review of it and after that you will gt a new book.

mijn  keuze (my choice):

• The King's spy van Andrew Swanston
• The labyrinth of osiris van Paul Sussman
• Across a bridge of dreams van lesley Downer
• The queen's secret van Victoria Lamb

Zo ik ga weer gauw verder met borduren, vandaag of morgen wil ik blz 4 van tranquility af hebben.

So I'm off stitching again, tomorrow I really want to have finished page 4 from tranquility.