Quite interesting, certainly put a few more books on my radar
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Avid reader of anything with meaning. I have a handful of follower only book lists on useless things.
Student Librarian at my institution. Not a fan of bright abnormally sized books.
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ATMmachine finished reading The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin by Andrew J. Webber
ATMmachine finished reading Orra: a tragedy, in five acts by Joanna Baillie
Quite enjoyable, I listened to the Librivox recording of this at the same time too, which aided in picking up aural information inferred in text.
ATMmachine finished reading Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
certainly interesting
ATMmachine finished reading Georg Büchner by Georg Büchner
Very enjoyable, I recommend Danton's Death highly, the other works contained within are slightly lesser in my opinion, but still good nonetheless.
ATMmachine started reading Georg Büchner by Georg Büchner
ATMmachine quoted Georg Büchner by Georg Büchner
DANTON No, Julie, I love you like the grave. JULIE (Turning away.) Oh! DANTON No, listen! They say in the grave there is peace, and grave and peace are one. If that's so, then in your lap I'm already lying under the earth. You sweet grave—your lips are funeral bells, your voice my death knell, your breasts my burial mound, and your heart my coffin.
— Georg Büchner by Georg Büchner (Page 24)
This quote at the beginning of Danton's Death is quite something.
Three intoxicating tales of three women–their secret desires, fears and madness–from a giant of Brazilian …
Her former youth seemed as strange to her as one of life's illnesses. She had gradually emerged from it to discover that one could also live without happiness: abolishing it, she had found a legion of people, previously invisible, who lived the way a person works – with persistence, continuity, joy.
— Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector (Page 19)
ATMmachine finished reading Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
Three intoxicating tales of three women–their secret desires, fears and madness–from a giant of Brazilian …
For a short story, this gives a lot of emotion for very little character set-up
Cause why not
ATMmachine wants to read Georg Büchner by Georg Büchner
Some translator said they liked the works of Büchner so I'll give some a try
ATMmachine finished reading The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
Somewhat surreal compared to my normal reading, good read.
ATMmachine finished reading Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to …
Got this from Unity AKL, good to read whilst waiting for someone
ATMmachine started reading Brighter than a Thousand Suns (book) by Robert Jungk
Brighter than a Thousand Suns (book) (German language, 1956)
Brighter than a Thousand Suns (book) by Robert Jungk
Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, by Austrian Robert Jungk, is the first published …
ATMmachine finished reading Developing Materials for Language Teaching by Brian Tomlinson
Great read, relevant not just to language teaching, but material development in general.