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Chrissie wrote: "Petra, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements IS very good, but it is about chemistry. It..."Chrissie, thanks for this! I loved chemistry class. Being a total and complete nerd, I even once tried to memorize the periodic table. LOL!
Maybe I'll break down and buy a copy for myself for Christmas.
Kimberly wrote: "I'm reading 
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"Kimberly, I really enjoy Rutherford's books. Have you read others by him. My favorites were London: The Novel and The Forest. I haven't read New York yet and look forward to it.
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Petra wrote: "Kimberly wrote: "I'm reading and "Kimberly, I really enjoy Rutherford's books. Have you read others by him. My ..."
Petra I love Sarum. I've bought all of his books except The princes of Ireland and the forest and I'm only 35% into the book
Petra, I have begun writing a review. Check it out here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...to help you decide.
Lee, I hope you like it. I am wondering if you kind of have to have feeble vision to enjoy the bits about blindness...... I always get scared when someone reads a book I loved. Will THEY like it as much as I did????????
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Lee, and what do you think of how the people around her react? What do you think of Turri and Pietro? Me, I just loved Turri. Am I spelling these names right?.....
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Lee, when I read the book my husband said immeditaely that he thought it was an English journalist that made the firt typewriter.... So we checked in Wikipedia and there they do name an Englishman in the 1700s. They also mention Turri and how his typewriter used carbon paper. Turri in fact invented carbon paper too. Also that it was used to help the blind is pointed out. They go on to mention other inventors of later dates. It seems that several were working on such a machine. Each made improvements. Some of them were slower than writing by hand. They sort os summarize my saying that the typewriter has no one real inventor. This is all there on Wikipedia.
Yesterday I finnished read book "Zwei halbe Leben" by Rebecca Stephan. This book was translated from German language to Slovakian language and this book was very interesting for reading.And today I start read a book "Pasion india" by Javier Moro, this book is translated from Spanish language to Slovakian language.
I just finished The Shadow of the Wind. I haven't reviewed it yet, or even rated it, but after I do that (hopefully today) I'll start One Crazy Summer. It for the Children's Books group read in January, I think, but it's due within the week, and I can't renew it because it's got holds on it. So, it's next. Then, I have about 7 novels I "need"/want to read asap. Not sure which will be next.
Maria wrote: "Yesterday I finnished read book "Zwei halbe Leben" by Rebecca Stephan. This book was translated from German language to Slovakian language and this book was very int..."Maria, I am always on the lookout for newer German literature, so this book seems interesting. However, there is no description on the GR database. Would you mind letting me know what the book is about?
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Lee, I had to look it up to prove to my husband that this book wasn't total fiction..... We tend to debate stuff! Neither of us just accepts what we are told. We are always pulling out encyclopedias, or atlases, or dictionaries.
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Lee wrote: "I love it when wonderful stories are based on true events and real people!"Me too! But, then I always want to know what is factual and what is fictionalized.
Lee and Lisa, me too! The best is if the book as a clear author's note! Then there is always Wikipedia.
Chrissie wrote: "Lee and Lisa, me too! The best is if the book as a clear author's note! Then there is always Wikipedia."Great authors' notes are the best! I appreciate them so much. Yes, it's usually easy to look up information in Wikipedia and other places online, but when that information is part of the book I really appreciate it.
I agree, there is nothing better then reading a great story and then finding out its true:)
Adelhaida, you might be interested in checking out The Blind Contessa's New Machine. It is not only a love story, but also about blindness and one way of overcoming the restriction that blindness imposes. I really enjoyed it. Why is expressed in my GR review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...It is NOT just a normal love story at all.
Have you been a member of this group for a long time?
I'm not able to get into anything lately. I am going to pull out my emergency Coben,
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Sounds like a good plan, Christine. :)
It got rotten reviews, and Coben himself wrote a disclaimer that it's his first work (over 20 years old), but I am going in with that knowledge so I'm good. Haha! I love him.
I just have to stop picking up deep books that I know I'd love at any other time. I'm just too distracted.
I just have to stop picking up deep books that I know I'd love at any other time. I'm just too distracted.
I just finished Two Babushkas. I absolutely adored it. My review explains why: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/....Now I will start The Family Mashber.
I've just started Miles Away...Worlds Apart
an inspiring and informative book by Alan Sakowitz about being a whistleblower to a Ponzi scheme in Florida.
Thank you, I'll make sure I check it out. I love the unexpected, those are the best:)No, actually I just saw the name and I thought it might be interesting. I'm new to Goodreads, but I adore this site now.I must say, your country categories are really interesting. I love traveling so I most defiantly will be checking some of those out. Do you write at all?
Christine wrote: "I'm comfort reading! Yay! 
"Christine, I've read the Vish Puri books, too. They're a fun read. Very much comfort reads.
Adelhaida, I love learning about different cultures. Living in Europe does that to one! I am born in the States but left when I was 19. No, I don't write.
I am reading The Lord of the Flies. Comfort read? Maybe not.
Amanda wrote: "I am reading The Lord of the Flies. Comfort read? Maybe not."I read it for school when I was 13 or 14. I loved it, but it's definitely not a comfort read of mine!
I have got to admit I've never read Lord of the Flies.
Darkpool wrote: "I have got to admit I've never read Lord of the Flies."It's very dark, Darkpool, but brilliant too. I thought so at the time anyway. I've never reread it as an adult so I don't know what I'd think now.
Heavens, there is no way of calling Lord of the Flies a comforting read! Still, it is worth reading. I think.... I read it ages ago.
Chrissie wrote: "Heavens, there is no way of calling Lord of the Flies a comforting read! Still, it is worth reading. I think.... I read it ages ago."I guess I should reread that sometime. We read it at school, and while it was brilliant, it gave me nightmares. On the other hand, there are so many new books that I want to read or should read that I think I will be holding off on rereading it.
I've just started an amazing, but heartbreaking first-person account (Canadian as well) called Incorrigible, about a young Canadian woman who was basically abducted and jailed (and more) by both her parents and the Canadian government because she "dared" to fall in love with a Chinese Canadian man. I've only started, but I'm going to have to read slowly and take breaks, this book is getting me so angry that I basically want to call government agencies and rant at them ...
Gundula, I like emotional people. You and I are a pair! OK, not only do we get really grumpy, but also really HAPPY! The latter is good.
My husband just re-read Lord of the Flies, and still liked it as an adult. I still haven't attempted it. Definitely not on my comfort list.
I read it over 40 years ago ... late teens or early 20s. I was staying in an old hotel in a small town in southern Louisiana. I was alone and this book terrified me!! LOL I don't think I want to re read it. And yes, I had nightmares & heard noises in the old hotel. Somehow I always seem to be reading the scariest books in the worst possible situations. It certainly enhances the experience!
You need to take Anne of Green Gables with you when you travel! Good thing you weren't reading Interview with the Vampire!
I enjoyed Lord Of The Flies. I haven't read it since High School either. Maybe it's time for a re-read soon.I'm currently reading Three Seconds, which is turning out to be a real page-turner. It's very well written and there's a lot of suspense being built up.
On my commutes to/from work, I'm listening to The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette. It's giving Marie Antoinette a very human and real persona. I'm liking it.
That's a good idea, Jeannette!! I'll keep it in mind.
Chrissie wrote: "Gundula, I like emotional people. You and I are a pair! OK, not only do we get really grumpy, but also really HAPPY! The latter is good."Actually, people who are completely unemotional kind of scare me, because I think that sooner or later, something will give and the emotions will come tumbling out.
Martha wrote: "That's a good idea, Jeannette!! I'll keep it in mind."
lol! You fooled me, Martha! I thought I was replying to Gundula, because of the photo. She's a big L. M. Montgomery fan! Either way, don't read "intense" books when you are by yourself in a "creepy" hotel. ;)
lol! You fooled me, Martha! I thought I was replying to Gundula, because of the photo. She's a big L. M. Montgomery fan! Either way, don't read "intense" books when you are by yourself in a "creepy" hotel. ;)
Jeannette wrote: "Martha wrote: "That's a good idea, Jeannette!! I'll keep it in mind."lol! You fooled me, Martha! I thought I was replying to Gundula, because of the photo. She's a big L. M. Montgomery fan! E..."
You're right, I did a double take myself, it looks very similar to mine at first glance.
I'm reading
. It's the first book by her that I've read and I must say I really like her.
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I wish I had been taught chemistry how Sam Kean tells the story of the periodic table and all the elements. Maybe then I would not be starting at zero. He explains in a way that ties all the ends together. He puts the elements in the context of world history. He tells you about the bizarre scientists who made headway in the field. You talks about Ytterby, Sweden, and how it has an abundance of the lanthanid elements. Those are the elements that float around loose on the bottom two rows of the periodic table. They hide their electrons deep within their shells. I am Swedish and I never knew this!!!! Shame on me. Ytterby is near Stockholm. I should have known this. There is no way you can make the elements and their arrangement in the table more intereseting, but STILL it is chemistry. Since I start out with so little knowledge I do not understand everything, although most IS clear.