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By Myrthe on February 22, 2011
I have taught Dutch to private students in Yerevan for almost five years now. I am not a (language) teacher by profession and teaching languages is definitely not my calling in life. I don’t see myself standing in front of a classroom full of pupils or students, for example. I taught German and English for a [...]
Posted in Armenia, Holland, Life in Armenia, Women | Tagged emigration, immigration, integration, teaching |
By Myrthe on February 3, 2011
Interpreter of Maladies is the first book we read for our book club that I recently got together in Yerevan. We are meeting tonight to discuss Jhumpa Lahiri’s book. I will hopefully blog more about the group and the book discussion in a separate post, but now I just want to write about my own [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Fiction, short stories | Tagged immigration, India, Jhumpa Lahiri, United States |
By Myrthe on October 16, 2010
I read plenty of books since I last blogged, but I didn’t feel like writing about them, though I did enjoy most of them. O Pioneers! is the first book I feel like blogging about and even writing this blogpost took me something like two weeks. That shows how out of blogging-shape I am… This [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Fiction, Women | Tagged gender, immigration, Nebraska, United States, Willa Cather, Women Unbound Challenge |
By Myrthe on July 11, 2010
Last week, I realized I hadn’t blogged or written anything at all in almost a month. I just don’t have the energy and the right frame of mind for writing and blogging right now. I miss writing and the process of trying to express my thoughts coherently and thinking about how to express what I [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Fiction, memoirs & autobiographies, Non-fiction, On Writing and Blogging, short stories | Tagged Armenian Diaspora, immigration, United States, William Saroyan |
By Myrthe on June 6, 2010
Yes, I know, I was absent again for a while. I haven’t done too much reading since I came back from DC, but I’ve been doing more traveling instead. After the US, I was home for two and a half weeks, then I went to Istanbul for a week to meet up with two Dutch [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Fiction, Life in Armenia, Russia, short stories, Women | Tagged immigration, Sana Krasikov, United States |
