Building

From my desk at work I can see the building activities going on in the next building. I am up on the sixth floor, and I can see this building across the road. Actually, I can see right through it, because the outside is nearly all glass now. A few months’ ago they started stripping the place, and you could see huge skips lifted up to the top floors, sticking out of the building. Now I can see huge men in brightly coloured shirts up on the roof rebuilding the place. The funny thing is that the department I work for will move into that building at the end of next year.

I finished the McGrath book, and enjoyed it very much. I’m back to reading one of my favourite Dutch authors, Hella Haasse. She writes historical novels, but there always is such a lot of psychological insight in what she writes. That is what makes it most interesting for me. She also manages to create a sense of history that I enjoy. The book I am reading now is about Dutch history, but it feels quite foreign to me. I recently read a book she wrote about Greece
during and just after the second world war, creating a real web, with a great many strands all falling into place at the end. And she created a wonderful set of characters, writing from various points of view, leaving and picking up the story several times.