Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.
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17% complete! François has read 18 of 104 books.
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places …
short story about a crime writer who is challenged at a panel discussion to write …
Nice little story, as McCall Smith can write them - very quick read :-)
short story about a crime writer who is challenged at a panel discussion to write a novel about a mundane …
One house, ten contestants, thirty cameras, and forty microphones. Everybody knows the rules—total strangers are …
Vey interesting whodunit. It took me a while to get into it, but it was worth persevering. Not only don't you know the murderer until the final moment, but you don't even know the victim until past half-book ! But once you get hooked.... worth it !!!
Hutch has been the Academy’s best pilot for decades. She’s had numerous first contact encounters …
As usual, nice to read, but I've got a feeling we're getting near the end of the series...
One house, ten contestants, thirty cameras, and forty microphones. Everybody knows the rules—total strangers are forced to live together while …
Hutch has been the Academy’s best pilot for decades. She’s had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor …
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice …
Not at all what I expected. I wanted to read an Atwood that was not Handmaid's tale. This is a surprise. The style is what it is, and she has a definite technique. All in all a very interresting book - give it a try.
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An …
Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She’s completed a nerve-bending qualification flight …
This episode takes us to the beginning of the career of hutch. As usual, nice and easy reading :-)
Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She’s completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot’s license.
Her …
The year is 2255. The academy that trained the starfarers is long gone and veteran …
As usual, nice and easy reading for this 6th nstalment of the academy/hutch saga, with some nice twists and turns - I'll say no more :-)
The year is 2255. The academy that trained the starfarers is long gone and veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins …
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, …
I was going to write *more of the same", but that wouldn't do justice to the book. Of course there is a certain amount of repetition if you have read recently, as have I, both his previous books. Whereas the first was concerned with the past and the second with the future, this one delves right into the present, and boy, he don't take no prisonners. Definitely a must read. Not necessarily an easy book, as he goes against a lot of "generally accepted" ideas, but scientific as ever, everything is documented. Very very very recommended.
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative …
