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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88% complete! François has read 92 of 104 books.
Destined to become a modern classic in the vein of "Guns, Germs, and Steel," "Sapiens" is a lively, groundbreaking history …
L’oncle Cassave va mourir. Il convoque toute sa famille à son chevet dans la demeure …
Jean Ray est le Lovecraft / Poe belge. Je pense que quand j'ai dit cela, j'ai tout dit. Ses histoires et contes sont super bien construits et c'est un plaisir sans cesse renouvelé.
L’oncle Cassave va mourir. Il convoque toute sa famille à son chevet dans la demeure de Malpertuis et leur dicte …
"From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about …
Excellent, but then again, I still have to find a book by A. McC-S. that I don't like :-) If you don't know him yet, do yourself a favour and get one of his books, any which one will do. He's probably most famous for The N°1 Lady detective agency, which was made into a movie, but it's a whole series (probably 20 I reckon). The audio books made by the BBC (I think) are of very high quality, so recommended as well (got several of those and never disappointed). He has several series with different settings and heroes, my favorite being Dr Igelfeld, scholar in a linguistic department, and having been there myself I can swear Alex was a fly on the wall so close it is to reality. All his books are great, he is great. More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McCall_Smith . Ho yes, this specific book, I hear you …
Excellent, but then again, I still have to find a book by A. McC-S. that I don't like :-) If you don't know him yet, do yourself a favour and get one of his books, any which one will do. He's probably most famous for The N°1 Lady detective agency, which was made into a movie, but it's a whole series (probably 20 I reckon). The audio books made by the BBC (I think) are of very high quality, so recommended as well (got several of those and never disappointed). He has several series with different settings and heroes, my favorite being Dr Igelfeld, scholar in a linguistic department, and having been there myself I can swear Alex was a fly on the wall so close it is to reality. All his books are great, he is great. More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McCall_Smith . Ho yes, this specific book, I hear you say ? More of the same. funny, witty, crazy and extremely well written, as usual. The title sums it up, actually :-)
"From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about one man's misadventures in travel …
Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo—he’s just a regular guy who was …
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” …
Not at all what I expected, but still interesting, as always with Steinbeck. Quite short too !
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the …
1985, Paris est frappé par des attentats comme le pays en a rarement connu. Dans …
Excellent bouquin du non moins excellent @loevenbruck@toot.portes-imaginaire.org. Bien ficelé, super bien documenté. Un plaisir recommandé !
1985, Paris est frappé par des attentats comme le pays en a rarement connu. Dans ce contexte, Marc Masson, un …
The universe has been explored--and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent …
Number 3 in the series, and I believe the last one. Not bad at all, but I can't help feeling it's a good thing it's finished. I have the impression that each book is just a tiny bit less good than the previous (I avoided worse on purpose, because it's not that bad). Still worth a read, loads of twists even if sometimes a bit predictable.
Dengan penuh semangat Arin mencicipi telur asin. Mmm … rasanya tidak seenak biasanya. Ternyata Arin …
Ini buku anak-anak. Buku ini ada di sini karena ini buku pertama yang saya baca dalam bahasa Indonesia :-) Ada juga resep telur asin.
@futzle Quite nice, thanks. As said, the first one has a kind of RDV with Rama flavour which I liked a lot. (I won't insult you and we'll take RDV with Rama as read :-) An absolute masterpiece in my eyes, much better than the "other" book that made him famous thanks to kubrik). The second was ok, but then end kinda lost me with the rescue details. Third (and last I have) ok so far. You could certainly do worse than re-reading them :-) Sorry late reply, didn't see I had comment. There is no specific bookwyrm client that I know of (privacydragon doesn't work on my phone) unfortunately, so no notification :-(
The universe has been explored--and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite …
In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva …
Second instalment of the Academy/Hutch story. More adventures, still very nice even if the end seemed a bit confused to me. Maybe a tad below the engines of gods, but still worth a read :-)
