let' s jazz it up !!

* phrasal verb to jazz something ... up = to make sth. more interesting, exciting or attractive

So .. André has already made a much more attractive blog template (?), right? - YOUR TURN NOW to make it ..

• more intereting - by posting interesting stuff !!
• more exciting - by leaving your comments as often as possible!!

OK, now that I've made my point ...

 let's start with a cultural thing: B.O.O.K.S  - shall we?

• I myself have already made a suggestion: Steven Saylor and his Roma Sub Rosa series - have a look at it in the previous post, will you guys?
• Each week, each one of you (in turns) will post sth. related to literature (Portuguese or English) : a poem, a literary text, a book's review and all that jazz ** .. n. 1 will do it next week, OK Filipa? (n.2 the following week, and so on and so forth)

** idiomatic expression and all that jazz = and things like that

and .. for the ones of you who haven't a clue about what jazz is, here goes a sample: