Hello, Daniel! Your writing is catching, as always! Is the picture at the start of this post actually from Vienna? I found this roastery brand only in New York. A friend of mine has recently moved to Austria. He seems a little bit lonely there, so I wanted to recommend him a nice place.
Hi Nastia, glad you enjoy my writing. This picture is actually not from Vienna, but the US. Vienna is full of cool cafes - if it's good quality (third wave) coffee places, then my favourites are Jonas Reindl, goldener papagei (mainly for the actual coffee). If it's for the atmosphere and not always great coffee (because Vienna has so many historical cafes), then Cafe Hawelka is good, and Cafe Sperl is another one. Honestly, Vienna has so many historical cafes, some can be pricey and touristy (like Cafe Central, a very famous place, always with a massive queue to get inside).
fun fact, your first idiom example reminded me of another one-> be pissing in the wind, like hopeless situation.
Although I was in advertising for many years, I still love letting myself charmed if it's about a nice und stunning packaging, or the front cover of a book (this is also reminds me of another story when Steve Jobs asked the journalist Walter Isaacson to write his autobiography and he let Walter to interview as many people and friends he wanted to, without having control over its content, the only thing where he wanted to be involved was the front cover. This made Walter to smile and he let Steve Jobs to come with some proposals. So again, the packaging). Having this in mind, when this bloody book will be published? Because you've already put some pressure on us.
PS: the Moon under Water is going to help me start 1984? Because I have this on my table, and I have been sniffing around it for too many months- two months to be precisely- and only because the reviews, so many metaphors that should be connected wuth the history and this make me scare because seems to be another endless book, like I see myself running between this and Wikipedia to check the real facts.
I used another cool idiom in my book with 'wind': throw caution to the wind. That's another of my favourites.
I'm an advertiser's dream - I'm a sucker for packaging and good deals (buy 1, get 1 free? This is why I have 6 bottles of olive oil all the time!).
You've probably head the saying 'don't judge a book by its cover', but I disagree. I think you can, and this is going to be the topic of a post very soon, once I reveal my cover. The book shouldn't be too much longer, the editing/writing/formatting is all done and now it's the last-minute things with getting it listed, etc. Apologies for the pressure, but there's good news (I hope) if you like this book - future books will be a faster process and I've already got outlines and extensive notes for my next few (not to get ahead of myself and count my chickens too quickly :))
PS. the Moon Under Water is a short article and I don't think it will necessarily help you with 1984. One of my favourite Orwell books is Down and Out in Paris and London, and I think that one is more accessible. I get into so much detail in my book about ways to read more effectively, but my advice for now would be to read it with less pressure. Read it for the ideas and the metaphors and don't worry about checking facts. And don't worry if there are any ideas or words that confuse you - don't let them slow you down. Read like kids do, getting the general idea without analysing it too closely. Perhaps the most important thing? Don't read anything if you feel like you 'have to'. You should want to read it, not because it's a 'classic' and you 'must'. Life is too short for that!
Hello, Daniel! Your writing is catching, as always! Is the picture at the start of this post actually from Vienna? I found this roastery brand only in New York. A friend of mine has recently moved to Austria. He seems a little bit lonely there, so I wanted to recommend him a nice place.
Hi Nastia, glad you enjoy my writing. This picture is actually not from Vienna, but the US. Vienna is full of cool cafes - if it's good quality (third wave) coffee places, then my favourites are Jonas Reindl, goldener papagei (mainly for the actual coffee). If it's for the atmosphere and not always great coffee (because Vienna has so many historical cafes), then Cafe Hawelka is good, and Cafe Sperl is another one. Honestly, Vienna has so many historical cafes, some can be pricey and touristy (like Cafe Central, a very famous place, always with a massive queue to get inside).
fun fact, your first idiom example reminded me of another one-> be pissing in the wind, like hopeless situation.
Although I was in advertising for many years, I still love letting myself charmed if it's about a nice und stunning packaging, or the front cover of a book (this is also reminds me of another story when Steve Jobs asked the journalist Walter Isaacson to write his autobiography and he let Walter to interview as many people and friends he wanted to, without having control over its content, the only thing where he wanted to be involved was the front cover. This made Walter to smile and he let Steve Jobs to come with some proposals. So again, the packaging). Having this in mind, when this bloody book will be published? Because you've already put some pressure on us.
PS: the Moon under Water is going to help me start 1984? Because I have this on my table, and I have been sniffing around it for too many months- two months to be precisely- and only because the reviews, so many metaphors that should be connected wuth the history and this make me scare because seems to be another endless book, like I see myself running between this and Wikipedia to check the real facts.
I used another cool idiom in my book with 'wind': throw caution to the wind. That's another of my favourites.
I'm an advertiser's dream - I'm a sucker for packaging and good deals (buy 1, get 1 free? This is why I have 6 bottles of olive oil all the time!).
You've probably head the saying 'don't judge a book by its cover', but I disagree. I think you can, and this is going to be the topic of a post very soon, once I reveal my cover. The book shouldn't be too much longer, the editing/writing/formatting is all done and now it's the last-minute things with getting it listed, etc. Apologies for the pressure, but there's good news (I hope) if you like this book - future books will be a faster process and I've already got outlines and extensive notes for my next few (not to get ahead of myself and count my chickens too quickly :))
PS. the Moon Under Water is a short article and I don't think it will necessarily help you with 1984. One of my favourite Orwell books is Down and Out in Paris and London, and I think that one is more accessible. I get into so much detail in my book about ways to read more effectively, but my advice for now would be to read it with less pressure. Read it for the ideas and the metaphors and don't worry about checking facts. And don't worry if there are any ideas or words that confuse you - don't let them slow you down. Read like kids do, getting the general idea without analysing it too closely. Perhaps the most important thing? Don't read anything if you feel like you 'have to'. You should want to read it, not because it's a 'classic' and you 'must'. Life is too short for that!