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After quite a break from Bookwyrm: This is the one I'm currently reading.
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I read all kinds of things. Since spending my younger years with all kinds of classics (you know the things schools like you to read) and of course fantasy, my reading spectrum has broadened significantly and I really read all kinds of books (even non-fiction gasp).
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Stuff reviewed Machtübernahme by Arne Semsrott (Serie Piper, 811)
Das Buch der Stunde: Der bekannte Politikaktivist Arne Semsrott zeigt, was passiert, wenn Rechtsextremisten an …
Sorry to tell you but you kinda need to read this
Read this a while ago. It's kinda depressing that I feel like I needed to read that. Everyone who lives in a country in which rght wing forces are gaining more and more momentum (so basically: everyone) can maybe unverstanden why this resonated with me.
It describes strategies to slow down, hinder, make lifes harder of such forces when they are grasping for power. It describes how such forces gain power.
So pretty essential. And good to know that there are strategies to fight back.
Stuff rated Der Name der Rose: 5 stars
Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco
Diese furiose Kriminalgeschichte aus den Mauern einer italienischen Abtei des 14. Jahrhunderts, in der die Ästhetik des Mittelalters mit der …
Stuff finished reading Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco
Diese furiose Kriminalgeschichte aus den Mauern einer italienischen Abtei des 14. Jahrhunderts, in der die …
So, I'm new to Bookwyrm and discovering... So best to start with this gem. It's actually my favorite book - like in "my top 1 of all time". I have read it 4 times? 5 times? I've read the epilogue a lot more often. Can't really tell you why I love it soo much. Probably because it's a medieval story, a murder mystery to be precise. Probably because it has a medieval Sherlock Holmes in it. Doing all his Sherlock Holmes things: doing impossible deductions from absolutely tiny evidence, being all reasonable, explaining stuff to a flabbergasted Watson, i mean Adson. And Eco being an expert on everything he is writing here about makes it immersive and so incredibly detailed... And its commentary about open information, censorship, reason, the love for books. I'll stop now, otherwise I just end up reading it again.
Stuff rated Perilous Times: 4 stars
Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee
An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself—in …
Stuff finished reading Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee
An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, …
As someone who has loved the Arthurian Legend since my late teens and has read one or the other iteration over the years (including Le Morte d'Arthur straight outta the 15th century), I enjoyed this fresh take. It has modern times but still the good old stuff any Arthur-Fan loves: beasts to slay, valiant but flawed knights and senselessly beating each others heads in. It also made me lol quite a bit (but to be fair more in the first half of it). I have seen the style likened to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. And although I laughed and had a good time reading it, I wouldn't say it reaches those heights. But maybe that's a bit much to ask. ;-)