Might we once again talk about books?
I have just started Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye and am enjoying it. Since I wasn't able to drive for weeks and weeks (I can now, yahoo!), I had more time to read while commuting, so have recently finished Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre (re-reads), Redwall, and before that, another reread, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, which I then handed off to the tall child to read (which he did totally without comment). It's a good read, and laugh-out-loud funny in oh, so many places! And some heartbreak, too.
And you? What have you read recently? Was it good? Would you recommend it?
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owlice wrote:Might we once again talk about books?
I have just started Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye and am enjoying it. Since I wasn't able to drive for weeks and weeks (I can now, yahoo!), I had more time to read while commuting, so have recently finished Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre (re-reads), Redwall, and before that, another reread, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, which I then handed off to the tall child to read (which he did totally without comment).
And you? What have you read recently? Was it good? Would you recommend it?
I love to read, nearly every category as book or online.
I have red Pride and Prejudice by Jane AUSTEN a gazillion times in English as a teen and watched the five hour movie by BBC too. (I love the sarcasm which goes unseen
by most of the readers, grown up in a traditional family with a mother who's only interest is to marry my sisters and me like in the novel)
Jane Eyre is the heroine of Brontë.
I am reading a fanfiction in English online, and as a book "'Physik" by Tipler...obviously for basics in physics.
And I am half through with "The girl who kicket the hornests nest" by Larsson in English, can't read the original in Swedish.
It is a trilogy ( I have red all a while ago) by Larson and I think it is a very good thriller. I have watched the movies too (with the actors Nycvist and Rapace, not the
Hollywood version), but it cuts the content of the story to 1/3.
When I was commuting regularly, I red more.
When I returned from Turkey as a teen, I red a German dictionary like a novel, and when I had the opportunity to go to a library I picked randomly books from
shelves because I did not want to go always to same categories, by that I had books in my hand with weird content too.
Next I wanted to learn Latin and I am considering to buy a book about celestial coordinate system....but nowadays I have to economize so I have to decide which first.
When I lived with my family I shared a room with my older sister and I had a book on my table "Flora und Fauna von Deutschland"
my sister thought it was a novel thinking Flora von Deutschland is the heroine from a novel...she asked after months how I like it because I had it for over a semester
on my desk and she thought I must love it a lot...I laughed a lot and explained that it is a habitat directive to determine plants and insects, which I had to use for a class.