What are you reading?

NoEarthlyReason

General

16 Aug 15 08:37

Torunn

Gothenburg

Joined: 11 Mar 16
Moves: 29892

11 Dec 20 12:15

@torunn said
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis (1983)

I have reached page 130, and so far it is all about chess - moves, strategies, openings, chess books, champions. Recommended.

Torunn

Gothenburg

Joined: 11 Mar 16
Moves: 29892

17 Dec 20 14:48

Hans Fallada: A Berlin Family Chronicle

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 700789

20 Dec 20 11:38

@torunn said
Hans Fallada: A Berlin Family Chronicle

Hard one to read I though but maybe I would think differently haveing matured a few decades 😉

Sybille Lewitscharoff: von oben

An interesting take of a deceased person who ghosts around...

Torunn

Gothenburg

Joined: 11 Mar 16
Moves: 29892

20 Dec 20 12:04

@ponderable said
Hard one to read I though but maybe I would think differently haveing matured a few decades 😉

Sybille Lewitscharoff: von oben

An interesting take of a deceased person who ghosts around...

Hans Fallada - his book is more than 700 pages. If I enjoy it reading 1/3, I will continue. His novel 'Alone in Berlin' opened my eyes to this writer.

hakima

Illumination

The Razor's Edge

Joined: 08 Sep 08
Moves: 19665

21 Dec 20 02:11

Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane

The Great Alone be Kristin Hanna

Selected Poems by Adrienne Rich

Great Big Stees

Joined: 14 Mar 04
Moves: 205542

21 Dec 20 12:01

@hakima said
Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane

The Great Alone be Kristin Hanna

Selected Poems by Adrienne Rich

WOW!!!! I, sometimes, struggle with just one.

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

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Moves: 700789

22 Dec 20 19:49

I have just finished:

Isabel Bogdan: der Pfau (the peacock)

The best book I have read in 2020. Funny and deep. And I do hope it will be translated into English for you 🙂

Drewnogal

Constant Gardener

The Plot

Joined: 07 Aug 12
Moves: 55474

23 Dec 20 14:01

@great-big-stees said
WOW!!!! I, sometimes, struggle with just one.

I struggle to fit in my online newspaper once a day!

Very Rusty

RETIRED!

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Joined: 04 Oct 06
Moves: 755404

23 Dec 20 16:43

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@torunn said
I have reached page 130, and so far it is all about chess - moves, strategies, openings, chess books, champions. Recommended.

Did you know the Queens Gambit is on Netflix and other videos?

-VR

Torunn

Gothenburg

Joined: 11 Mar 16
Moves: 29892

23 Dec 20 17:46

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@very-rusty said
Did you know the Queens Gambit is on Netflix and other videos?

-VR

I know, but I don't have Netflix. The book is special.

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 700789

26 Dec 20 09:56

Leonie Swann: Dunkelsprung

very entertaining!

mchill

Cryptic

Behind the scenes

Joined: 27 Jun 16
Moves: 3283

30 Dec 20 06:28

@noearthlyreason said
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Grit - The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Duckworth

2nd time through.

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chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 700789

31 Dec 20 14:41

Batya Gur: Du sollst nicht begehren (orig. Hebrew, english: Murder on a Kibbutz)

moonbus

Über-Nerd (emeritus)

Joined: 31 May 12
Moves: 9625

31 Dec 20 20:43

Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult. One of the few Rep. Senators who is looking at the reality.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/31/politics/sasse-gop-certification-objections-dangerous/index.html

biffo konker

Green Boots Cave

Joined: 02 Dec 08
Moves: 19204

03 Jan 21 15:21

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