Thanks for the link. I found some books Slow Horses, Dead Lions and The List.
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Have finished Matthew Reilly's The Tournament. Both it and Mr Einstein's Secretary are books that are --
- Rollicking good stories
- Well written
- and you learn something along the way.
Human Acts, Han Kang. I rarely, almost never actually, read fiction but wanted to read her work.
I just added this book to my TBR a few days ago. I'll see if I can get it at the library. Curious to know what you think of it.
Yup, it reminded me that I enjoyed reading a bunch of Carl Hiaasen books in the past, so I jumped back in...
If you're a fan of ST:TOS, I highly recommend this book. Word to the wise: never volunteer for away missions with the Captain and senior staff.🖖
Now reading Razor Girl, the sequel novel to Bad Monkey...
If you're a fan of ST:TOS, I highly recommend this book. Word to the wise: never volunteer for away missions with the Captain and senior staff.🖖
I have read a handful of his stuff, will have to give Redshirts a go...
I just added this book to my TBR a few days ago. I'll see if I can get it at the library. Curious to know what you think of it.
As mentioned I read very little fiction but this was more historical fiction so interesting too.
Since the work was translated it’s difficult for me to completely appreciate the author.
Having said that I have many translated books mostly of poetry (Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Polish, and Russian). While the author does shine through I very much regret being unable to read their words directly.
Onto - Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, Caroline Elkins.
The other day I looked at an interesting book. I couldn't read the text, but I admired the picture on this page that I photographed:
It's a first edition of the 1543 book "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" by Nicolaus Copernicus, in which he published his conclusion that the Earth revolves around the sun (the heliocentric model) rather than the Earth being the center of the universe (the geocentric model) as Ptolemy had claimed. Pretty wild theory, right?
The book was in a glass case in the library at Caltech, so I couldn't borrow it to leaf through the other pages. Luckily, you can buy a copy from a rare book dealer for about $2.5 million dollars.
It's a first edition of the 1543 book "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" by Nicolaus Copernicus, in which he published his conclusion that the Earth revolves around the sun (the heliocentric model) rather than the Earth being the center of the universe (the geocentric model) as Ptolemy had claimed. Pretty wild theory, right?
The book was in a glass case in the library at Caltech, so I couldn't borrow it to leaf through the other pages. Luckily, you can buy a copy from a rare book dealer for about $2.5 million dollars.
Well, now, that really does look intriguing! It would really be neat to be able to look through the rest of the book. Too bad it's so expensive to buy your own copy.....and that the library at CalTech isn't about to lend it out to you for free!
In my fifth year of an art history PhD, so.... basically this:
If you want to read the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus in English, here it is.
Another link. You can download it if you want, as it is free.
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Exquisite, gorgeous, and quite simply sublime. Actually, wonderful.
What an absolute treat to have actually laid eyes on this magisterial masterpiece.
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Meanwhile back with those of us who devour current fiction, just finished Eruption begun by Michael Crichton before his death and completed by James Patterson. As expected, very interesting off-beat story, a page-turner completed in one four-hour read. I did learn a bit more of the geography of Hawaii.
Something else interesting here! In taking another look at the illustration, just for fun I counted the circles and was immediately reminded of Dante's Nine Circles of Hell..... !!
Yes, I would love to see such a thing - what a gorgeous, glorious work.
Physically exquisite - beautifully produced - and historically, a genuinely transformational work.
Wonderful.
Adding to the above myriad of the books with red cover.
The art of war by Sun Tzu. Most pages require to take a stop and jot down the takeaways and how it can affect us.
The book is indeed about the war but can be translated into the office life. For example the army can not be always in fight mode, they need time to rest and eat. The same for people: one can not be always stressed out.
Only bad comments on amazon from people who says: why do i care how people fought with arrows if it is not applicable to current gen tech.
The art of war by Sun Tzu. Most pages require to take a stop and jot down the takeaways and how it can affect us.
The book is indeed about the war but can be translated into the office life. For example the army can not be always in fight mode, they need time to rest and eat. The same for people: one can not be always stressed out.
Only bad comments on amazon from people who says: why do i care how people fought with arrows if it is not applicable to current gen tech.
The thing is, those who once fought with arrows are now leading the way as the top-notch tech country in the world—China.