Author: Jernej

  • O “Ekstradeviško”, Dušan Čater

    Beremo dve zgodbi. Ena se dogaja v sedanjosti s 17-letnim Majem v glavni vlogi, druga pa v obliki dnevnika, ki ga Maj najde v hiši ravno preminulega dedka Franeta na manjšem, neimenovanem jadranskem otoku, definitivno pa na Hrvaškem (omenjeno je, da Maja mama Danijela samega pusti za nekaj dni na otoku, medtem ko gre ona…

  • “Where the crawdads sing” by Delia Owens

    I enjoyed reading this book (details about life in marsh, court scenes, can teach you about treating others in kind way) but it should have finished before last chapter or two. This way the book ending would be positive. But because of revelations in the last chapter, now the main character left a negative impression…

  • Baking with sourdough, update

    I have decided to do an update entry about my experience of baking sourdough bread, this time in audio format and in my native language. But below is the translated text of what I’m saying on the audio Here I am again, this time in audio format, to speak about my latest acquired experiences in…

  • “Walking” by Henry David Thoreau

    Walking is an essay by American essayist, poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, first published 1862. In it, Thoreau “extolled the virtues of immersing oneself in nature and lamented the inevitable encroachment of private ownership upon the wilderness.” (The Atlantic). Among his other works are book Walden; or, Life in the Woods and essay Civil…

  • Latest pizza

    Probably my last pizza/sourdough bake of 2019. I ate if for breakfast. 🙂 Toppings used: tomato sauce, leek, corn. I realized how less stressful is it to bake a pizza than bread because the latter is so much more delicate about everything – flour, temperature, oven, steam. Or maybe I just need to watch less…