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Florian

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Joined 1 year, 3 months ago

My mind races with all my longings.

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2024 Reading Goal

23% complete! Florian has read 12 of 52 books.

Aleida Assman: Der europäische Traum (Paperback, German language, C.H.Beck) 4 stars

Das Symbol der EU ist der Sternenkreis. Lange stand er im Rahmen der offiziellen Rhetorik …

Aleida Assmann talks in this book about 4 learnings from European history and provides in the second half of the book two examples for each learning. The learnings are securing peace, creation of democracies, the German culture of remembering and the rediscovery of human rights.

Ned Beauman: Venomous Lumpsucker (Paperback, 2023) 4 stars

The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was …

In the near future corporations need to buy extinction credits when they accidentally or on purpose drive a species to extinction. Intelligent species cost 13 times as much as non-intelligent ones. Resaint evaluates if a species is intelligent and hires by a mining company. Things go wrong and suddenly Resaint and the executive from the mining company are hunting through the Baltic to find the last remaining venomous lumpsuckers.

Ned Beauman crafted a story with some really creative elements and some twists on reality. At times the book is super depressing because certain elements could happen in the real world as well.