Coins Are Forever
We don’t have any intention of becoming a coin collector nor a numismatist. These coins are what we’ve kept from our travels, mostly on road trips, when we needed loose change for tollgates and small snacks. It seems as though we become coin collectors in the end. But not numismatists since we are not studying about currency and other payment systems. These coins led me to memories when hubby and I traveled for the first time. It was the time when euro wasn’t the currency of many countries in Europe yet, hence these coins from different nations. Some of them are no longer in use these days when the countries later voted for euro.
Can you see which coins belong to what country? These coins are like diamonds, they last forever even when they’re not in use anymore. They may not be as valuable as diamonds are, but the memories and histories behind them are worth a treasure.
These are the coins that’s been replaced by euro: German mark, Italian lire, Austrian schilling and the one from Netherlands.
Her Teapot Collection
I’m pretty sure you all know about collecting stamps or like most women do, collecting bags or shoes. I do have quite a number of bags but it’s not something I would have thought of collecting. Sometimes we meet people who have the hobby of collecting things and it so happened that I’ve met one and this person happened to be my boss. She invited us to her place nearly two weeks ago and it was inspiring to see her collection of teapots. So far, she has collected 54 of them. I was wondering how she managed to find a space for them but she has built or has let somebody built a long shelf on the wall and placed the teapots on. Some of them are placed in bookshelves.
collecting teapots
She told us how it all began and I was amazed the same thing happened to me, though not teapots but some kind of a weird collection, if I may describe it. She said it started when somebody gave her a teapot as a present, then followed by other persons and the rest is history, until she’s found herself collecting this thing. Some of them she bought from different places she visited. It’s uncommon type of collection, isn’t it?
Never Look Away
It’s the name of the book I have just finished reading. I was so dragged to the story that I didn’t want to put it down till I’d come to the last page. It’s like I wanted to know what would happen next and every chapter was a discovery of another unpredictable truth. And that would only led me to keep on reading. This is the first novel I’ve read of Linwood Barclay but after reading “Never Look Away”, I must say I instantly become one of his million readers. I just wouldn’t look away then the moment I got hold of this book.
I haven’t heard of Linwood Barclay nor his books before. While I was browsing for something to read at the bookshop a week ago, I found this one with an interesting synopsis in the back-cover. I usually look for something new by some prominent writers like Dan Brown or John Grisham among others but my gut didn’t feel like having one of them. Instead, I ended up picking a book at random, read the lines in the back and finally fell for this one. And I didn’t regret it.
I’m not going to divulge the story here in case some of you would want to read it later. But rest assured that it’s both breathtaking and heartbreaking. It will take some time before I rid myself of the touching scenarios I created in my mind while reading the book.
Other best-sellers by Linwood Barclay:
- Too Close To Home
- No Time For Goodbye
- Fear The Worst
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