The post that was quoted here has been removedHigh rating or not, you have the social instinct of a tarantula. And OF COURSE I fully expect a stinging rebuke, like that would prove you are a real person. Hint: Don't go into politics. It requires empathy, something you sorely lack and BTW you are not the brightest bulb in the candelabra even if you are as you say a national master which is, at 2200 or so, only 600 points lower than the top ten. BTW, you don't even have to bother telling me I am a fish, I already know that.
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When I got Bronstein´s "Secret Notes" last summer, I'd read it in one go, and now I am leafing through it again, lingering on some touching parts. It's really good script for a biopic film, and if you added some spy spices, it would sound like it was written by Le Carre.
Bronstein was practically banned from traveling abroad on tournaments (evil Baturinsky!; and others) from midst seventies, and when it finally got free, he got sick and had to undergo major surgery.
But he recovered and traveled as a gray lion in his seventies, trying to find another home.
Spain, Island, Scandinavia - they all could have him, but the living legend wasn't good enough for them. He was guest in rich chess enthusiasts' homes ("I never felt good with rich people around me", he writes) he was poorly paid player for some chess teams, thinking all the time if his serious illness will come back...
Now and then he played a brilliant game, but he couldn't keep the form on high level during whole tournament.
Finally he gave up idea of moving abroad and settled back in his wife's university city to die there.
By accident I played chess several times in Øbro skakforening in Copenhagen, and only after I read this book I discovered that Bronstein played there, too, and that the club president was "a young man with back-pack" who welcomed him in Copenhagen Primo nineties and who now organizes some rapid and standard tournaments in the club.
Originally posted by @great-big-steesIf you enjoy mystery, check out The Dry: A Novel by Jane Harper. For good non-fiction,
Sometimes it takes a "few" pages to get into a book. The only one, thus far, I tried for about 100 pages (twice) was The Life of Pi and I just couldn't complete it.
look for David Grann's The Lost City of Z, or his new book, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Originally posted by @handyandyThank you, I will try to find all of them. I believe Andy's suggestion might also please Stees.
If you enjoy mystery, check out The Dry: A Novel by Jane Harper. For good non-fiction,
look for David Grann's The Lost City of Z, or his new book, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Originally posted by @handyandyThe Dry - Swedish title 'Hetta' (the heat) - is available in Swedish and I will try to get it from our library. It has very good reviews.
If you enjoy mystery, check out The Dry: A Novel by Jane Harper. For good non-fiction,
look for David Grann's The Lost City of Z, or his new book, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Originally posted by @torunnAnother from 2014 (you may know of it already) is All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
The Dry - Swedish title 'Hetta' (the heat) - is available in Swedish and I will try to get it from our library. It has very good reviews.
Originally posted by @handyandyThank you so much - 'Ljuset vi inte ser', a book to my liking, I'm sure.
Another from 2014 (you may know of it already) is All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
Originally posted by @handyandyLjuset vi inte ser - reading it now.
Another from 2014 (you may know of it already) is All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
Originally posted by @handyandyPulitzer-Price Winner 2015 All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - in Swedish Ljuset vi inte ser - really is a great novel, "Stunningly beautiful" (The New York Times), "A masterpiece" (Library Journal).
Another from 2014 (you may know of it already) is All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
I'm half-way through the story and I love every sentence.