October 2025 – findingtimetowrite
1 post published by MarinaSofia during October 2025| findingtimetowrite
1 post published by MarinaSofia during October 2025| findingtimetowrite
And I’m back online! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you and your blogs, but I won’t miss waving my phone about on the balcony in the hope of better reception. Sa…| findingtimetowrite
10 posts published by MarinaSofia during January 2019| findingtimetowrite
Well, it’s been a busy and dramatic month, and here I am with a new flat, a new hometown and lots of new friends and activities too. I am also still drowning in boxes, as my flat is only half-furnished, so it will take a while to feel human again. I also still have lots … Continue reading September Summary and Settling In| findingtimetowrite
As of this weekend, I’ll be moving to my new flat, where I have to wait until at least October 6th until I have internet connection, plus the minute I resolve one issue, another ten seem to c…| findingtimetowrite
Johnny-come-latelyThe new kid in townEverybody loves youSo don’t let them down… Well, I don’t know if everybody loves me like in this (ironic) Eagles song, but certainly everyone is making me feel very welcome in Berlin. The city itself seems to be at its best, on the cusp of summer to autumn, not too unbearably … Continue reading New Kid in New Town| findingtimetowrite
I may not quite be in my own flat yet, but at least I’m getting settled into my new hometown, so I’m always delighted to take part in the Six Degrees of Separation meme hosted by the lovely Kate. This month the starting point is Ghost Cities by Siang Lu, a book that I haven’t … Continue reading #SixDegrees of Separation: September ’25| findingtimetowrite
Although August also brought a few weeks of relative quiet (the eye of the storm), it was not the most conducive month for ambitious reading or film watching or other events. Seven books, of which …| findingtimetowrite
My older son has just finished teaching English in China over the summer and is now travelling around for a bit and sharing beautiful images of landscapes and museums that he’s seeing over there. Nothing like visiting places that Mum hasn’t been to (yet)! So this inspired my post this week: some of the most … Continue reading #FridayFun: Amazing Architecture in China| findingtimetowrite
This is not the first time I’m moving house or country (I stopped counting after the 20th move or so, although not all of them were international moves). But it’s been nine years since my last major move, and the only one that I blogged about. So here are some links to the summer of … Continue reading Remembering a Previous Move| findingtimetowrite
I lost count a little bit while packing books, moving, finding books on my Kindle, but I think I’m nearing the end of my 20 Books of Summer (having read a few not on the original list as well). These three latest ones were all on my list, and had been buried on my Kindle … Continue reading #20Books of Summer and #WITMonth: #16-18| findingtimetowrite
As someone pointed out in the comments of last week’s Friday Fun post, white shelves look very different when they are full of books, so I decided to explore it further, to see if I might consider white shelves instead of too dark a library (which is my initial preference, but which I fear might … Continue reading #FridayFun: White Bookshelves| findingtimetowrite
I have now left my house (still officially my house for a couple more days, but the keys have been handed over) and am staying with a friend in London, who has a beautiful guestroom, a separate bat…| findingtimetowrite
Marlen Haushofer: Wir töten Stella (We Kill Stella). [And a special review bonus: Sara Gran’s Come Closer] Marlen Haushofer is the high priestess of succinct, almost detached narration that c…| findingtimetowrite
1 post published by MarinaSofia during August 2025| findingtimetowrite
It’s a good job that I’ve developed a good personal relationship with both the buyers of my house in the UK and the seller of the flat in Berlin, because there are some obstructions and…| findingtimetowrite
I’ve become immersed in the world of Mihail Sebastian after reading his novel For Two Thousand Years, his pamphlet How I Became a Hooligan, moving straight onto his Journals, which take up wh…| findingtimetowrite
CW: Largely personal musing, so look away now if autobiographical confessions are not your thing. It is not unusual to be struck by a feeling of sadness when you finish a book or a film, whether yo…| findingtimetowrite
Claudia Piñeiro: Elena Knows, trans. Frances Riddle, Charco Press, 2021. Although I really had no hand at all in her success, I can’t help feeling that Claudia Piñeiro is my secret love that …| findingtimetowrite
