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G. K. Chesterton: Saint Thomas Aquinas (1956, Doubleday)
Anselm of Canterbury: The major works (1998, Oxford University Press)
Thomas Ligotti: Noctuary (1995, Carroll & Graf Publishers)

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Pierre Boulle, Pierre Boulle, BOULLE: La Planète des singes (Paperback, French language, 1990, Julliard)
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Luís de Camões, De Vinne Press (Printer): Os Lusiadas (Hardcover, 2016, Wentworth Press)
Frances White: Voyage of the Damned (2024, Michael Joseph)

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Harry Kemelman: Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home (Rabbi Small Mysteries (Ibooks)) (Paperback, 2002, I Books)
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Leo Perutz: The Swedish cavalier (1993, Harvill)
Flavius Josephus: De bello Judaico (Paperback, 1981, Penguin Classics)

2024 Reading Goal

80% complete! Alexander has read 32 of 40 books.

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Musicians: You are not allowed to use even the shortest sample without a contract
Internet Archive: You are not allowed to lend digital versions of books you own.
AI Techbros: LOL. We'll just sample and copy whatever we want to feed our "AI", including all your books and music, you slackers, because LOOOOOOOL, YOLO, VC moneeeeey!

reviewed Elektro Krause by Patricia Eckermann

Patricia Eckermann: Elektro Krause (Paperback, Deutsch language, 2021, tredition) 4 stars

„Wer ist die denn?! Wo ist der Krause?“ „Ich bin Krause“, antwortete ich und registrierte, …

review of 'Electro Krause'

4 stars

okay, it is rather a draft than a real novel: the 80ies setting is more proclaimed than it is shown, the characters were thrown at you and the plot is held together by rush conveniences. but it is such a fun text to read, the dialogues especially and despite the cracks and holes you feel on every page the energy and wit of the main character.

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finished reading Sans eux by Caroline Fauchon

Caroline Fauchon: Sans eux (French language, 2019, Actes Sud) No rating

Fable anthropologique sur les mutations à l'oeuvre dans une société qui fait face, dans une …

Je suis passé complètement à côté. Dans un proche futur, les hommes disparaissent peu à peu. On n’en saura pas plus, ça n’est pas le sujet. Le livre est une sorte de journal qui documente les effets de cette disparition, mais l’autrice est nostalgique et essaie de collecter des souvenirs de ce qu’étaient les hommes. Ça m’a laissé froid.