Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
After another month off in my series, and back I am with my reading suggestions in what is a semi-hiatus summer. I took on a very high-intensity project at work that has taken most of my time in the last…
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Welcome back to my reading suggestion series, after one month’s break. Not that I haven’t read anything in May (quite the opposite) but all of that was non-fiction and not that appealing either (all work-related, rather boring stuff). And while…
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Again, a late summary of this month’s reading, due to work. Oh well, the pandemic certainly changed the way people work and the personal space has shrunk rather significantly with the expansion of the Zoom-culture, which allows for working hours…
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This time the reading offer for the month arrives almost at the end of the month itself. A good illustration of a period incredibly busy with work and other good reasons (some of which I will disclose on this blog…
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This month I am late for my usual book presentation, and the reason is, as you might imagine, what’s happening on Mars, which is taking up a big part of my work schedule and virtually all my free time. So,…
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Just a quick announcement about this non-fiction collection published by Luna Press Publishing about love in SFF, which I just found out made the BSFA Longlist. Quite good news indeed (disclaimer: I have authored one of the papers, “Shades of…
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This time it was relatively easy to select the three featured books for the blog: they’re the ones I am reading just now, and they’re all worth the time, for different reasons. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel….
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For the last reading list of 2020, I have three very different suggestions. The only thing they have in common is that all of them are extremely interesting and well-written books. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Now, this one is…
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Even if it is now mid-November, I have not forgotten about my three monthly books, and I am actually almost done with them: I have only neglected to write out them here. I’ll do it now. God’s Wolf: The Life…
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September has just ended, but the books I had on my table were over long before. I am already at an advanced stage in my October reading list. Which looks like this: In the Name of the Family: A Novel…
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