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Today is the last day of the year, and with that, the last day of reading The Evenings. The novel is famous for a number of reasons, but one of them

Day nine, the penultimate chapter of The Evenings! What is the chapter about? Well, we'd have to read the chapter to answer that question, of

Today is day eight, on which Frits suffers from a hangover from the night before, in which ad fundum proved to be a favourite exclamation. Frits

Day seven of The Evenings. Seven comes after six, and that rings of 'six-seven', children's word of the year of 2025 in The

Christmas has passed and it's day six of The Evenings. Today's chapter begins not with Frits waking up, but right in the middle of the

'AT NINE O’CLOCK, by full daylight, he awoke. "The second day of Christmastide has broken,"" he thought.' It's Boxing

Christmas day! Frits woke up a quarter to eight and 'his first thought was: "It is Christmas Day."' I must admit that my first

It's already the third day of reading The Evenings, and I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday. Baldness is a recurring theme throughout the book — an

Today, we're reading chapter 2 of The Evenings. I thought it would be fun to look at sentence lengths in that chapter and compare them between

Today, December 22nd of 2026, is the first day of reading The Evenings, the translation of De avonden by Gerard Reve. Reading this classic from 22-31